rooting ourselves

at campaigners we were talking through these verses. It is so important to plant yourself. It may look a little bit harder, as John Mark taught us, we are going to have to dig through the soil on top that looks good but it is deceitful. Let's do the work NOW to get down to the good rocks underneath the bad soil. Instead of going down with a crash and having to rebuild.

JER 17:5-8
"Cursed is the one who trusts in man,
who depends on flesh for his strength
and whose heart turns away from the LORD.

 He will be like a bush in the wastelands;
he will not see prosperity when it comes.
He will dwell in the parched places of the desert,
in a salt land where no one lives.

 "But blessed is the man who trusts in the LORD,
whose confidence is in him.

 He will be like a tree planted by the water
that sends out its roots by the stream.
It does not fear when heat comes;
its leaves are always green.
It has no worries in a year of drought
and never fails to bear fruit."


MATTHEW 7:24-27
"Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock. The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house; yet it did not fall, because it had its foundation on the rock. But everyone who hears these words of mine and does not put them into practice is like a foolish man who built his house on sand. The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell with a great crash."

{via @AJesusChurch}

LUKE 8:15
But the seed on good soil stands for those with a noble and good heart, who hear the word, retain it, and by persevering produce a crop