Where is YOUR root system???
"I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the Lord’s holy people, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God."

 

We all know that a strong foundation is everything. we sung the song "a wise man builds his house upon the rock" as kids, we know that if a tree has a shallow root system it will fall, eventually...

 

But what is their rock, or WHO is their rock? We give our kids the best education we can, we offer them good food, we read to them, pray with them, train them to be moral and kind, and take them to church.

 

I have begun to wonder if I have let them make ME their root system. Do I allow them to tap into MY faith instead of teaching them to go to the one true source of strength and stability



As this new year begins and so many sons and daughters go off on their own to make their own choices I am praying that they will be rooted in Christ and not in US their parents.