Being a part of the Rio was an amazing period of my life. There is such life thriving in that environment- constant encouragement, and growth... It really stands up to it's name, "Rio"- the river that gives life.
God reciently reveiled to me a very weak spot in my heart/faith. It left me feeling displaced. I'm currently reading "A Woman After God's Own Heart" by Elizabeth George, who uses the analogy of a root system and plants and such, and then elaborates on the verse from Jeremiah 17: (It tells us that the person who trusts in the Lord) "shall be like a tree planted by the waters, which spreads out it's roots by the river, and will not fear when heat comes; but it's leaf will be green, and will not be anxious in the year of drought, nor will cease from yielding fruit." The way she lays it out is beautiful. I can understand more deeply why daily devotion is so crucial. Because we are planted by the river we will not crumble when the wind blows and the storms come, in fact, we will even continue to bare fruit.
E.G. writes, "Roots are for support... Without a strong network of roots, sooner or later we have to be staked up, tied up, propped up, straightened up- until the next wind comes along and we fall over again. But with firm, healty roots, no wind can blow us down."
Even while God revealed my heart and I have been displaced by that, I can still feel a trickle of water... If I fed myself MORE, how much stronger would my tree be!!
Even as I struggle, I can sense God's love and patience and mercy. Praise God for that! <3
By: KD (Katie Denny)
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