Roots

This morning(Just now) spending time in the word
I came across a verse that spoke to me
much differently than it has in the past
well actually a whole part of a chapter of Ephesians

chapter 3:¹⁴ For this reason I kneel before the Father, ¹⁵ from whom every family in heaven and on earth derives its name. ¹⁶ I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, ¹⁷ so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, ¹⁸ may have power, together with all the Lord’s holy people, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, ¹⁹ and to know this love that surpasses knowledge —that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.

maybe I never really payed attention to it 
or maybe I'm just starting to see how much community is a necessity 
in the body of Christ, but when I read this I read it as a communal statement
a communal prayer for us

that we be rooted and established in love
I don't think that means just with Christ, but I think it means
with His people too

He prays that we not be alone by ourselves
not that we have no roots outside of people
Because honestly we always have Christ,
but that we be communal in order to build each other up in love
to laugh, to comfort, to hold accountable, and just be there for each other

to love each other
we all need to be in friendships like that
so that we can see Christ through those friendships

I'm learning this as I learn to put myself into positions
where I am with friends who are healthy for me to be around
I've been in very many unhealthy friendships in the past
and clung to them with all of my might

just recently have I began to actually let go of them
and place my roots into what has been healthy all along

and if you're like me 
sometimes digging your roots in can be very difficult
very scary cause you're used to that familiar
back and forth of the unhealthy, but we have to remember
that what God has for us, though it may be scary, is best for us.

it's like getting up and going to a new land

that He will show us

the new land was never a worse land than where Abram started off

it was always a better land 

Abram just had to be willing to move away from the old familiar

When God's people are together, when we pray together, when we laugh together,

when we love on each other, hold each other accountable, and are just there for each other

THERE'S POWER!

There's crazy insane power!

Power of healing.

Healing wounds that sometimes we didn't even know we had!

It's incredible and through the love we share

we begin more and more to grasp how wide, long, high, and deep God's love is

Immeasurable

yet graspable

and apart from a relationship with Christ 

and His people we don't understand it,

but when we submit to God 

and become communal and see God love through 

His people

we begin to get it

and we get filled

so long of allowing myself to be on empty every now and then

I mean I had moments where I'd be filled

but so often I'd run from what was good

so that I could keep familiar

can't say that I'll never mess up that way again,

but I can say that I'm starting to not want the familiar

because I'm starting to see the true beauty of the best

not to be confused with the beauty of the beast :D

GET ROOTED!