Hey Everybody!
Yeah I'm going to try this blog thing. It might not last long since I hate writing but I guess we'll see.
Last night I went to Winkler Bible Camp for Celebration Night. It is always a great time of praise and worship and they always have good speakers.
The theme of the evening was being rooted in Christ.
The speaker spoke (wow he spoke!) about us as Christians needing to be rooted in Christ so that we can grow in him. He gave an example about trees and how the Douglas Fir grows into a huge tree and its roots go down deep and interlock with other Douglas Fir tree roots. It would take a lot to uproot them.
This subject of being rooted has kept on popping up in my life since May Long Weekend. While I was on a canoe trip with some staff from Pembina Valley Bible Camp the question of how trees could live on rock came up. We were in Ontario and often saw tall scraggly looking pine trees growing on what seemed to be bare rock. We all too often came upon these trees blown over and blocking our path. These trees couldn't root themselves deep enough into the rock so that when the wind came off the lake it wouldn't get blown over.
We as Christians need to be like the Douglas Fir rooted deep in the earth and not like the pine just on the bare rock. The only way we can be rooted so deep is to listen AND obey God's words.
I have a hard time doing that. I finish Bible reading and prayer time in the morning and then I go and do my own thing, totally forgetting about what I had just read.
You can all feel free to pray for me anytime. I need it. :)
A simple verse that sums this all up is:
James 1:22 " Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says."
