Word of Encouragement for Every New Day ~ 1 Apr 2008

Word of Encouragement for Every New Day ~ 1 Apr 2008

Today’s word of encouragement is a continuation of my series on, the importance of building strong roots. Once again I pray and hope that this series will teach us that “strong roots” takes time, effort, and constantly growing our relationship with God. As we picture any plant, any tree, and flower; the only way that it can grow strong is by patiently watering it everyday. Too much water and we kill it. Too little, it dies. In the same way we too need strong roots, but what do we water ourselves with? Our hidden and dark secrets are weeds to our souls. They cause our roots to weaken and shrivel up. What started as a small harmless sin will eventually grow like thorns. Weeds chock our roots and eventually the weeds will take over the former life. Weeds kill the good tree. I hope that today we would look at our sin patterns as weeds. No matter how much good clean water we may pour on the tree it is of no use. What we really need is to kill the weeds. If we kill the weeds we kill the sins. How do we remove the weeds? The answer is simple, die to yourself, seek forgiveness from God, and be accountable to someone. Being accountable is really a tremendous blessing, if you find the right person. Sometimes when we pick people who are flaky and inconsistent most likely we will fall to our sin patterns again. However, if we are accountable to people who want to take God seriously and are consistently working at their relationship with God most likely we will be able to kill all the weeds. I hope this verse would remind us what weeds do to the righteous; they hem us so justice is perverted. Habakkuk 1:4 “Therefore the law is paralyzed, and justice never prevails. The wicked HEM in the righteous, so that justice is perverted.” © Apr 2008 Shaun Lee. www.everynation.org.sg archive: www.shauntzen.blogspot.com