Rooted and Established in LOVE

Ephesians 3:17-19 "So that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have the power, together with all the saints, 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."

I have been thinking about this verse the past few days and here are my thoughts... Trees are watered from the roots, the roots suck in the water and the tree flourishs from the inside out. Just as we should feed our selves with  God's word and start flourishing from the inside out.

Tree's are captivating in beauty they cry out "I have been made by God, I worship him through my beauty", this is what I want to be like, that God's fine art work would display through me and that would be worship to him.

Tree's are also grounded/planted in the ground and are almost impossible to just pull out. Being rooted and established in LOVE means that you are so stuck in His LOVE that it is pretty much impossible to be up-rooted from it. You can only start to understand LOVE through experiencing it. So to grasp how long, how wide his love is you must experience it and be in it, like the tree is in the soil, feeding off it. Which will strengthen you to start to understand his love more.

I want to be more like the tree, so deeply rooted in God's love that I am not swayed or uprooted by the storms of life.

Phippians 3:13b says "Forgetting what lies behind and straining forwards for what lies ahead" we must not look behind to the past because otherwise we risk tripping up and falling over, just like a man runnning race, if he was to look behind while running he would run the risk of not seeing where he was going and falling over. We  must fix our eyes on what lies ahead, which is God in us in his fullness. I have found this so much in my life that I dwell in the past and not look to Jesus who is what we are desiring to become like. It is so easy to do because we are human but we do not want to look to what the devil has done but to what God is done, doing and is going to do!