Hey everyone! I’m doing well and i’m back in Iowa again! i’ve been steady, and firm, in God’s love for us.
So lately, I’ve been dwelling on the future effects of my present actions. I’ve also been searching for chains, fruit, and tracing the roots of my present actions back to my past.
You want an analogy? Ok.
We live like the trees around us. Our foundations sustain us. Whether that be the sand or the rock.
Those who decide to sink their roots into the insipid, and changing sands (the world), await an ambiguous, culturally derivative life, likely driven by sensuality, and periodic security.
As the storms come, and the waters rise, these people anchored in the sand are carried away from one phasing passion to another.
This analogy is complex and multifaceted, but it’s a direct reflection to the perpetual pursuit of fulfillment, and immovable hope.
This fulfillment, and hope cannot not be found in earthly things, because of the very diminutive nature of our life on earth.
This law is well known, and yet many still endeavor to escape the inherent, human, hopelessness that comes from the fact.
Many will not, or cannot, address this fact emotionally, and thus pursue sensuality as a means of suppression and distraction.
First, If that’s you, whatever it may be, my question is this. Would you like to be free of that?
There is only one source of Hope that outweighs the rest. The river that never runs dry. It’s Jesus, and we are predisposed to find him.
This message is for nonbelievers and believers alike, so forget your level of spirituality and seriously address yourself.
Because maybe you are a believer, but you’re not living like Jesus is real anyway?
Are you rooted in sand? Ask yourself.
Is there something you do to numb the pain of having nothing real and perpetual in your life?
Is there something you keep going to in order to synthetically produce the very thing you’ve been unable to deeply receive from God?
Do you search for love in the opposite sex because you feel unknown by God?
Do you search for identity, security, and validation through what you do, because you forgot who you are?
Is it due to the discomfort and pain that it would take for you to be honest with yourself?
Or to the reinforced habits and culture of your past?
Is it owed to a personal fallacy in your doctrine, or a deficiency of any doctrine at all? or maybe an unbelieving heart?
God is perfectly sustaining, so it’s not a question of who he is. It’s a question of you think you are, or who you think God to be.
Let me tell you again, the way you live now is the seed of your future character.
Fatefully, it is an accelerator of either generational pain, or joy, of slavery, or freedom, and of heaven, or eternal separation from the King of the ground you are afoot.
These are the things that your children will learn from you.
We need to be honest with God, for he knows what we won’t say. And be honest with yourself, because avoidance is child’s play. And please be honest with those you hold near, because they love you.
If you want change, you gotta put it all out there.
God is perfectly sustaining. Christ is enough.
These are the things that I’ve had to apply to myself lately, because my day to day life is training for the man who will raise my kids.
The way I love God now, will be the way I love my future wife.
Am I to be a man who only loves the Lord when he feels it? One who only talks to God when his spirit is stirred? By no means.
And Identically, I do not intend to love my future wife in that way.
The way you love now, will depict how you love in the future.
The way you confront yourself now, will affect the future man or woman, whom you are to be.
So my plea, is that you do some serious excavating, and remove your soul from the sand. Pack up your comfort and consolation, before you run out of time and opportunity. Because you are growing deeper and deeper into the things that sustain you. Whether that be sand or good soil, only time will tell, and only you and God may know.
The sand won’t last, but if you can come to the end of yourself and plant your roots into the beginning of life, you will not only bear fruit in the years to come, but he who gives those very gifts will be by your side.
“Everyone who comes to me and hears my words and does them, I will show you what he is like: he is like a man building a house, who dug deep and laid the foundation on the rock. And when a flood arose, the stream broke against that house and could not shake it, because it had been well built. But the one who hears and does not do them is like a man who built a house on the ground without a foundation. When the stream broke against it, immediately it fell, and the ruin of that house was great.””
Luke 6:47-49 ESV
“My fruit is better than gold, even fine gold, and my yield than choice silver.”
Proverbs 8:19 ESV
