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Moore's
Chapel Home Missions & Evangelism Devotions
Beautiful Children's
Devotions - Teen
Devotions -
The
Walk To The Cross
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So then as you received Christ Jesus as Lord, continue to live in him,
rooted and built up in him, strengthened in the faith . . . (Colossians
2:6-7 NIV).
"I'm afraid we've lost our patient," my college roommate solemnly announced. Sure enough, on my desk, lay the lifeless remains of a carnation. Our heroic efforts had failed! Monday the flower had looked great as it posed in a mouth-wash bottle
filled with water. But But by Wednesday the comatose carnation had collapsed over the neck of the bottle. Desperate measures were needed! We administered some "all natural, high potency, multi-complex vitamins with minerals" from the hypochondriac down the hall. But alas, Thursday, the flower had gone to that Big Greenhouse in the sky. The autopsy revealed that cause of death from "separation from source of nourishment." All the artificial life-saving measures could not substitute for roots in fertile soil. Neither can "hollow" philosophy, traditions, legalism, church activities, or anything apart from a vital personal relationship with Jesus Christ, keep our spiritual life in fragrant bloom. Be planted where you bloom !
© James N. Watkins |
by Tuesday it was looking a bit brown around the
edges. My roommate had heard that aspirin could revive fleeting flowers, but
we were all out. We did have some Vitamin C that the school nurse dispensed
for everything from colds to malaria, so we tossed a few tablets in the
water.