Bible Verse of The Day – 1-2-23

Matthew 7:24-25 (NKJV) 24 “Therefore whoever hears these sayings of Mine, and does them, I will liken him to a wise man who built his house on the rock: 25 and the rain descended, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house; and it did not fall, for it was founded on the rock.

Change is something that we all must learn how to deal with. It’s part of life.

In fact, life is really nothing more than a constant cycle of change.

Sometimes the changes happen over time, very subtly. And these kinds of changes tend to go unnoticed because of the subtle way they happen.

Other times, change comes suddenly or in ways that are very big. When this happens, we can’t help but notice it.

These big or sudden changes are the ones that test our faith and trust in God.

You see, when we’re experiencing the smaller changes, it doesn’t require much effort on our part to adjust to them. They just kind of happen, and we flow with it.

But when the bigger changes come, how do we react? How do we handle them?

If we are to handle the bigger changes without getting knocked down by them, our roots need to run deep. Our trust in God must be strong enough to bring us through the change without us being taken out by what we face.

Think of it like a large tree. Some trees grow for years, maybe even for decades, without deep roots. And somehow, they manage to make it to maturity without being knocked over by a storm.

But one day, when a strong storm comes, and its shallow roots are weak and tired from other lesser storms that it has endured, the tree comes tumbling down because those roots just couldn’t handle one more storm.

The wind simply knocks it over, it crashes to the ground, and it dies.

We need to make sure we do what it takes to grow deep roots in the faith that we have in God.

We need to make the effort to grow those roots as deep as possible.

This requires us to spend time in God’s word daily. It requires that we spend time communing with Him. And it requires that we learn to listen for His voice, being careful not to miss it when He speaks to us.

So, when the storms do come, if our roots are deep, we won’t be like the tree that we see laying on its side after a storm. We will be like the house that Jesus mentioned, upon which the winds blew, that weathered the storm and was still standing.

Pastor Curt & Pastor Ellie

Seven Seas Ministries
49 N Lamplighters Walk
Hampstead, NC 28443

401-439-3780

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