With all of the roller-coaster spectrum of emotions many of us are facing during this COVID pandemic, I wanted to share a great analogy I learned today from Our Daily Bread devotional. Tree trunks and branches - how many of you are living in the branches? Feeling swayed by stress right now? Feeling overwhelmed? Trying to home school, trying to find a job, trying to find activities to fill the hours, trying to figure out how your finances are going to make it through this time, trying to find "Normal," and trying to NOT go stir crazy???
Think about a tree.........the trunk is solid. Anchored in the ground. Roots running deep. And, growth occurs without us seeing the visible evidence every day. Trunks don't move in the wind. They stand tall and sturdy. They are rooted and grounded.
What about the branches? Do they sway in the breeze? Do the branches bend when a storm comes? Certainly!
When life is like a wind blowing at us from every angle as it is right now, we seem to sway with the emotions that mount up! What if we look out the window at a tree trunk and try to be a bit more like it? What if learn to be a strong, sturdy trunk? Rooted, grounded.
What if we stand on the promise of the Bible that we are "rooted and grounded in Christ's love?" (Ephesians 3:17) What if we allow the wind to blow through our branches and bring us a sense of security knowing that the trunk is immovable? Christ is the solid ground we stand on. Christ, not our own volatile emotions. "Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today and forever." (Hebrews 13:8).
Did that sink in? Forever. Grounded. Rooted in love. Always. Even when the winds of COVID blows through our lives, there is a force that is immovable. Unquechable. Unstoppable.
Let the winds of His love blow through the branches of your life only to take you to the one place where there is solid ground.
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