The root of the tree

The value of the root of the tree. August 17^th, 2006

As a the great and beautiful tree stands tall in the forest showing its beauty to all the trees around. So big and majestic are its branches that no one would expect what would come of the tree next. One normal day, a mild storm came, just like any other spring day and this majestic tree crashed to the ground. A closer look revealed the problem. The inside of this tree had been eaten away by bugs and slowly over time had rotted away.

How important is our communion and fellowship with God -- our time of getting to know Him, reading the word, asking for His guidance. When we neglect these things, we show that He is not the king of our lives, but rather our self is. We do all the external things of piety such as praying and worshiping, we have friends and we seem like a good Godly person but something is wrong. We have an external religion that merely is for show, we want others to know us as a good person, or perhaps like many, we truly desire to be sincere but we just simply don’t have time. My dear friends, knowing the Lord and doing things for eternity is the only thing that will count in the end. Yeah, I know, the tests are there, the studying, all the burdens that we have to do to get the grade. Yes these things are good, but they cannot take priority in our lives. At the end of our life, will it matter if we got good marks in our B.D. or Mdiv, or will the time we spent knowing the Lord be more important. On that day will the Lord say, come you did well my good and faithful servant, or will He say, “Depart from me I never knew you”?

The apostle Paul says in 2^nd Timothy 1:12 that, “I know in whom I have believed”. Do you know Him? I’m not talking can you tell me from beginning to end the theological features about Jesus or His life, but I mean each day, do you talk to Him, do you listen?

Just some thoughts that have been going through my head and I have been reminding myself. I hope they are helpful to you as well. This has not been edited so I hope you can get the jist of the idea without stumbling over too many mistakes.