TREES

Patch and I went to my Dad and Cathy's last weekend and on the way we were able some of the tornado and wind damage from this past spring's storms. I was more into than Patch was:) It was mind blowing to me to see one tree, in the midst of a whole bunch of others, blown over and the rest of them fine. And other areas totally destroyed and few yards later nothing was touched. The trees that were hurt or destroyed reminded me of  John 15 and Isaiah 61:3. Mainly John 15:5-6, which says, "I am the vine, you are the branches; he who abides in Me and I in him, he bears much fruit, for apart from Me you can do nothing. If anyone does not abide in Me, he is thrown away as a branch and dries up; and they gather them, and cast them into the fire and they are burned." The trees died within 2 days of being blown over. 2 DAYS!  The symbolism for me is that if we are not grounded (we're talking roots going down really, really deep) in Christ and we are "blown over" by life, stress, family, kids, work, school, relationships, pick your stress, then we will suffer spiritually or even die spiritually. This may be a no-brainer for some of you but it has really laid heavy on my heart since I saw that. It was good for me to have a visual for these verses. I love when the Lord shows me things like this so I had to share.