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Monday, October 1, 2018

"Rooted and Established in Love" (& Joy)


            Have you had your Joy Juice today?  Hold on tightly to your serving…especially in the midst of a storm. 

            Floods, tornadoes and hurricanes wreak havoc on everything in their path! The aftermath brings devastation. Homes, businesses, treasures and keepsakes are ruined…and sadly… precious lives are often lost.  Storms can be frightening!  

            How can we be spiritually prepared to face the storms of life?  They will surely come. In Lysa TerKeurst’s newest book, Uninvited, she writes:

If we live rooted and established in His love, we don’t just have knowledge of His love in our minds, but it becomes a reality that anchors us.  Though winds of hurt and rejection blow, they cannot uproot us and rip us apart.  His love holds us.  His love grounds us.  His love is a glorious weight preventing the harsh words and hurtful situations from being a destructive force.  We feel the wind but aren’t destroyed by it.  This is the “fullness of God” mentioned in Ephesians 3. Verses 17-19 say: 

 And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, 18 may have power, together with all the Lord’s holy people, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, 19 and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.”

            May we all be rooted and anchored in the love of Jesus.

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