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Thursday, May 15, 2014

Grow Deeply

Consider a seed. It sends a shoot down into the earth in order to be securely grounded. At the same time another shoot grows upward into the world. Without a strong root system the plant that the world sees would not withstand the storms of life. That plant may be beautiful to the world or ugly in the eyes of the world, but to God His creation is a thing of infinite beauty. 

So are our lives in Christ. Without a deep, abiding, and grounded faith our lives wither and fade. Our attempts at living for Him are wiped away by the harsh circumstances of life. The life that appears beautiful or ugly to the world might not be that way at all. God does not judge the outer man the world sees. He looks upon the inner. He looks upon the heart. He looks upon the root to see if our faith is grounded in Him. He know that is where our true beauty lies.   

He grew up before him like a tender shoot,” Isaiah wrote of the coming Christ, “and like a root out of dry ground. He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to him, nothing in his appearance that we should desire him” (Isaiah 53:2, NIV). Jesus came into the world as an innocent child and grew just as a tender shoot–like a root out of dry ground. He grew in His father's care. No matter how dry His circumstance or how lonely His walk, He drew sustenance from His father. He flourished in His desert. His root was grounded deeply. He had no beauty to attract others to Him, yet He drew many because God made Him beautiful in sacrificial depths that the world could not see. And God knows whether we have that inner beauty of abiding faith or not.

Let your roots grow deep in Him. Study His word, and pray for His guidance in your life. If you want to grow strong with His purpose, your roots of faith must extend deep enough to withstand the winds of circumstance that will disrupt your life. When you are grounded in Him and His will, no weapon formed against you will succeed. When He is your life, your heart, and your purpose, your roots hold strongly. Be planted deeply, and your life will grow strong, secure, and beautiful in Him.

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