ARE YOUR ROOTS DEEP OR SHALLOW?
Staying with friends in Boulder, Colorado and enjoying their hospitality also meant being willing to pitch in and help in any way needed. Along with doing dishes and helping prepare meals, dandelion-looking weeds needed to be dug out.
Normal dandelions have roots which go quite deep and have leaves which are soft and edible in early springtime. The dandelions I was seeing weren’t your normal friendly dandelions, however. Their spreading leaves were full of prickers that hurt when touched. As the trowel was used to dig them out, it could be noticed that they had an extremely shallow root system. Shallow and prickly… a deadly combination.
We, as people, can become quite prickly, too. How? When we neglect to stay rooted in our Lord Jesus Christ. How can we stay rooted in Him? By spending time reading God’s Word, praying, worshipping and fellowshipping with others. Oh, how we should long to have strong roots which grow deep down into Jesus.
As therefore you received Christ Jesus the Lord, so live in Him, rooted and built up in Him and established in the faith, just as you were taught,
abounding in thanksgiving.
Colossians 2:6
Dawn is the author of “Balance for the Hurried Woman”, specializing in scriptural teaching, time management and health issues. Contact deuwriter333@gmail.com.
