Doesn’t it feel like everything’s different?
I know everything isn’t actually different, but doesn’t it feel like it is? In this season of uncertainty, it sure feels like we’re dealing with the aftermath of an earthquake, tornado, hurricane, AND a tsunami. Not OR a tsunami, but AND—all of these things put together.
I wonder what God’s up to?
Doesn’t it kind of feel like He is exposing our roots? That he is exposing what kind of soil we’re planted in? Exposing where we are getting our nutrients from? And exposing how deep our roots actually are?
For some of you, everything’s been turned upside down. You’ve been completely pulled out of the soil, thrown up into the air, beaten around and around and now you are lying bare on the ground. Finances, work, school, children, relationships, loneliness.
For others of you, yes things have obviously been shaken, but by and large, you’re still smooth and steady. And the rest of us are somewhere in-between.
In this season, as your roots have been exposed, I pray that you would look to Jesus.
In this season, as your roots might now be laid bare, I pray that you would dig deeper into the Word. Because when we dig deeper and daily plant ourselves more and more into the living word of God, here’s what will happen.
WE WILL be more firmly established in love, as it says here in Ephesians.
I pray that you, being rooted and firmly established in love, may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the length and width, height and depth of God’s love, and to know Christ’s love that surpasses knowledge, so that you may be filled with all the fullness of God. (Ephesians 3:17-19 CSB)
And when we do this, we will better be able to comprehend the length, width, height, and depth of God’s love. But here’s the cool thing. This won’t just be a comprehension of the mind…it’ll be a comprehension of the heart!
When we dig deeper into the living word of God, we will more deeply feel and experience the depth of Christ’s love that surpasses all knowledge. And the result is that we will be filled with all the fullness of God.
Fullness of his love. Fullness of his joy. Fullness of his peace. Fullness of his patience. Fullness of his kindness. Fullness of his goodness. Fullness of his gentleness. Fullness of his faithfulness. And fullness of his self-control.
SO THAT we can recover from the storm that has passed, endure the storm that is still here, and withstand the storm to come.
Friends. Let’s be rooted deeply in Jesus.