It was a gorgeous, Spring-like day this past Saturday in the South. Temperatures in the 60's beckoned our family to take an extended ride on the Greenway. As God would have it, one of the tires blew on a bike about 7-8 miles from our starting point. I volunteered to stay back and let someone come back and get me and the wounded bike. I had some time to look at the river as it rushed by. We've had quite a bit of rain so the river has been consistently up .
As I was basically in a trance looking at the water, my eyes happened upon these two scenes. Looking up and down the banks of the river from where it had swelled, there were large logs and debris that got caught in the current. But then I looked down and saw this tiny twig. It swayed with the current, but it was never uprooted. Why? Because it's foundation was planted far enough into the river bed that that current couldn't sweep it away. The larger log couldn't stay in its place because it had nothing to hold it there.
In this crazy fallen world that we live in, we have to be deeply rooted and established in Christ, otherwise the troubles, challenges, heartbreaks, and just the busyness of life will sweep us away.
