Roots

( I found this amazing tree when in Barcelona, it took my breath. This picture doesn't show the magesty of its presence. I fell in love with it so I had to steal a picture.2015)

Tree roots serve many purposes. Tree roots anchor the tree in the soil, keeping it straight and stable, and absorb water from the soil.Tree roots also take nutrients and chemicals out of the soil and use them to produce. Tree roots can continue to grow in particular conditions. ... Because of those reasons, trees usually are cut down only under certain circumstances. After a tree is cut down, a stump is left behind, and the tree's roots often stop growing unless suckers grow from the roots or the stump,what they need for the tree's growth, development, and repair. Under ideal soil and moisture conditions, roots have been observed to grow to more than 20 feet (6 meters) deep. Replanting Cut Trees Isn't Possible. ... However, even a freshly cut tree has been separated from its roots and replanting a Christmas tree without roots simply isn't possible.

Plant Roots. The root system of a plant constantly provides the stems and leaves with water and dissolved minerals. In order to accomplish this the roots must grow into new regions of the soil. ... When a seed germinates, the first root to emerge is the radicle, or primary root. The first root that comes from a plant is called the radicle. A root's four major functions are 1) absorption of water and inorganic nutrients, 2) anchoring of the plant body to the ground, and supporting it, 3) storage of food and nutrients, 4) vegetative reproduction and competition with other plants. So as to us as children of God, we must have our roots deeply plundged into Him. Through Him we receive life giving water, nutrition of His word, which accomplishes all it goes out to accomplish. It does not return unto Him void. Our anchor is in Jesus Christ, the roots , the strenth of the body, it's life is found in the roots( Jesus). Our reproduction is us as children of God winning other souls to our family, to the kingdom of God. Is this not so exciting? We die to self, (as the seed is sown it must die to give life), we too must die to flesh and live through the sprirt.

More importantly, roots are the lifeline of a plant, taking up air, water, and nutrients from the soil and moving them up into the leaves, where they can interact with sunlight to produce sugars, flavors, and energy for the plant. Where in spiritual things roots represent our life and strength. During the storms and hard winters and blazen summers, our roots founded in the Word of God and anchored to Jesus Christ carries us through all types of storms and adverse weather(situations) The deeper the roots the stronger the tree, the roots go deeper for greater stability, as for us as Christians go deeper in the Word and our walk with Jesus.

Theres much more we could share about the roots of a plant, but I want to share the purpose of allowing our roots to go deeper into the soil to establish permanence and strength. You see trees go through all the seasons, and during these seasons if their roots aren't deep down into the earth, they simply do not survive. Just as we as Christians, we must as the seed, die to self. We must get deeply rooted into God's word. The soil is our heart, the seed is planted either on good soil or bad. Through all seasons of life, all the storms as well as the intense heat and cold, we draw our strength from the roots. These roots are the foundation of our faith. In order for a thing to grow it is essential to have air, water, and nutrients (food). The same goes for us as children of the faith. Our air, is our breathing in of the Holy Spirit, without this interaction, we would be lost. The Holy Spirit is our guide, our great comforter, our ever present help in times of need, our peace in troubled seasons, our hope in a world of chaos. Each and every day we breathe the Holy Spirit in and inhale the fullness of the triune beauty of our Lord.

Our water, The Spirit is not only refreshing and satisfying, but also productive and fertilising. 'Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.' The 'water' stands in the same relation to the 'Spirit' as the 'fire' does in the saying of John the Baptist referred to -- that is to say, it is simply a symbol or material emblem of the Spirit. I suppose nobody would say that there were two baptisms spoken of by John, one of the Holy Ghost and one of fire, -- and I suppose that just in the same way, there are not two agents of regeneration pointed at in our Lord's words, nor even two conditions, but that the Spirit is the sole agent, and 'water' is but a figure to express some aspect of His operations.

The metaphor of fire suggests also -- purifying. 'The Spirit of burning' will burn the filth out of us. That is the only way by which a man can ever be made clean. You may wash and wash and wash with the cold water of moral reformation, you will never get the dirt out with it. No washing and no rubbing will ever cleanse sin. The way to purge a soul is to do with it as they do with foul clay -- thrust it into the fire and that will burn all the blackness out of it. Get the love of God into your hearts, and the fire of His Divine Spirit into your spirits to melt you down, as it were, and then the scum and the dross will come to the top, and you can skim them off. Two powers conquer my sin: the one is the blood of Jesus Christ, which washes me from all the guilt of the past; the other is the fiery influence of that Divine Spirit which makes me pure and clean for all the time to come. Pray to be kindled with the fire of God.