Where Are Your Roots Planted?

For those that missed Monday (4/11 and 4/18 which was cancelled due to weather) meeting... we talked about the scripture from last week.

• Study to show yourself approved unto God, a workman that needs not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth. --- 2 Timothy 2:15

Encouraging everyone to be in God's word daily, and to pay attention to the things that tend to distract us from spending quality time with the Lord. (Entertainment, hobby's, and even work)  Last week we touched on the importance of being in God's word and meditating on it day and night.

• But they delight in the law of the LORD, meditating on it day and night. They are like trees planted along the riverbank, bearing fruit each season. Their leaves never wither, and they prosper in all they do. --- Psalm 1:2-3

To meditate in God's word, is to expose ourselves to the great things contained in it by reading and giving close application of mind to what we read. We must have constant regard to the word of God, as the rule of our actions, and be our source of constant comfort; and have it in our thoughts night and day. It is never wasted time being in the word of God. 

For notice the fruit or benefit of one who delights and meditates on God's Law day and night. "They are like trees planted along the riverbank, bearing fruit each season. Their leaves never wither, and they prosper in all they do." Of course the wording hear is symbolic, (trees planted, riverbank, bearing fruit). The point being, that when we spend the time in God's word, and we think about and give much attention to it, we will be plugged into the very source of life.

Like trees, our hearts (Mind, will, and emotions) will be saturated with God's Law (the river) and we will be prosperous or be successful in all we do. Whether in trail or testing, good times or in bad times, we will be what we need to be for God because we are filled with God's divine power. Peter tells us in 2 Peter 1:3-10 that we share or partake in the divine nature of God when we fill our minds with God's word.

According as his divine power has given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him who has called us to glory and virtue:
By which are given unto us exceedingly great and precious promises: that by these you might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.
And for this reason, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge;
And to knowledge self control; and to self control patience; and to patience godliness;
And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness love.
For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that you shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.
But he that lacks these things is blind, and cannot see afar off, and has forgotten that he was purged from his old sins.

Therefore rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if you do these things, you shall never fall: --- 2 Peter 1:3-1

So, the challenge still stands... are you delighting in, meditating on, giving all diligence to being in God's word and applying it to your life? 

In His Service,

Rory