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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