Rooted

The July roof construction on the second side of the church required that the steel roofing material be pulled up from the parsonage side of the church.  Carla loves plants and had planted a small tree by the walkway.  Because the lanai extended to within three feet of the church for most of that side, the little tree was in the way.  It had to be cut down.  Carla was not happy but submitted to the needs of the construction crew.  When the work was finished, they dug a hole and stuck the tree into the ground hoping the it would root and grow again.  This week Pastor John sent a picture of the tree alive and growing.

  

Without application, this is just another story.  When we look into God’s Word, we see ourselves as a chopped off tree.  We are dead in sin.  Cut off from God.  Job said there was hope for a tree.

Job 14:7   At least there is hope for a tree: If it is cut down, it will sprout again, and its new shoots will not fail.

 But, for us there is no hope apart from Christ.

Colossians 2:6-7   Therefore as you have received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in Him, having been firmly rooted and now being built up in Him and established in your faith, just as you were instructed, and overflowing with gratitude. See to it that no one takes you captive through philosophy and empty deception, according to the tradition of men, according to the elementary principles of the world, rather than on Christ.

Colossians 2:13   When you were dead in your sins and in the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made you alive with Christ.

Bonnie Young