BBD 04.09.14 Tumbleweeds (Classic)

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04.09.14

Tumbleweeds

For this reason I bow my knees to
the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, from whom the whole family in heaven and
earth is named, that He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory,
to be strengthened with might through His Spirit in the inner man, that Christ
may dwell in your hearts through faith; that you, being rooted and grounded in
love, may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the width and
length and depth and height-- to know the love of Christ which passes
knowledge; that you may be filled with all the fullness of God. - Ephesians
3:14-19.

As you therefore have received
Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in Him, rooted and built up in Him and established
in the faith, as you have been taught, abounding in it with thanksgiving. -
Colossians 2:6-7.

For this devotional to work you must have a
basic knowledge of tumbleweeds. In the dictionary, tumbleweed is defined as “Any of various densely branched annual plants, such as
amaranth and Russian thistle, that break off from the roots at the end of the
growing season and are rolled about by the wind.” DesertUsa.com says
about tumbleweeds, “Virtually everyone
recognizes the mature Russian thistle, which looks like the skeleton of a
normal shrub. Plants may be as small as a soccer ball or as large as a
Volkswagen beetle.”

If you have ever run into one of those
tumbleweeds the size of a Volkswagen, you will know that this can be serious.
This morning I drove to Amarillo, Texas on I-40 about 120 miles from my home to
visit a woman having surgery. Every mile or so another tumbleweed would roll,
spin, or bounce across my path. Sometimes cars or trucks would strike the weeds
and once I was unable to miss a spinning weed that came into the path of my
car.

What makes a tumbleweed a tumbleweed is that
it has been detached from its roots. As a result, the weed has nothing to hold
it in place, nothing to keep it from aimlessly rolling, and bouncing at the
mercy of the wind. It is a picture of a person without Christ or of a Christian
that has failed to grow in Christ and put down roots.

We can look at the lives of many people and
see that their lives resemble the path of a tumbleweed. Sadly, these people are
pushed this way and that by life. They spin and tumble never having anything to
keep them in place or give them stability. They have no roots or their roots
are very shallow. Psalm 1 describes such a
person, “The ungodly are…like the chaff which the wind
drives away.”

The child of God is to be “rooted and grounded in love,” and we are to be “rooted and built up in Him and established in the faith.”
Psalm 1 tells us of such a person, “Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the
ungodly, nor stands in the path of sinners, nor sits in the seat of the
scornful; but his delight is in the law of the LORD, and in His law he
meditates day and night. He shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water,
that brings forth its fruit in its season, whose leaf also shall not wither;
and whatever he does shall prosper.”

Which kind of person are you? Which kind do
you want to be? Are you “like the chaff which the wind
drives away?” Or, are you “like a tree planted”
by the river of living waters with your roots growing deeper and deeper?

Copyright © 2004 - 2014. Ed
Wrather. The Burning Bush website has been online since January 31, 1998. On
June 8, 1998 the email version of the Burning Bush Devotional was first sent.
Ed Wrather began writing devotionals in the early 1990s. The distribution of
these first devotionals was primarily through the Burning Bush Newsletter sent
to prison facilities throughout the United States and Canada.

Visit the
Burning Bush websites:

www.theburningbush.net

www.theburningbush.org

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Burning Bush website

is being updated.

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If for
some reason you do not receive your email version of the devotional please
check the Burning Bush website at http://www.theburningbush.net for the
“Devotional of the Day” and read the devotional there.

The Burning
Bush Devotional

14,000
Subscribers to the Email Devotional

(Classic
from 2004)

04.09.14

Tumbleweeds

For this reason I bow my knees to
the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, from whom the whole family in heaven and
earth is named, that He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory,
to be strengthened with might through His Spirit in the inner man, that Christ
may dwell in your hearts through faith; that you, being rooted and grounded in
love, may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the width and
length and depth and height-- to know the love of Christ which passes
knowledge; that you may be filled with all the fullness of God. - Ephesians
3:14-19.

As you therefore have received
Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in Him, rooted and built up in Him and established
in the faith, as you have been taught, abounding in it with thanksgiving. -
Colossians 2:6-7.

For this devotional to work you must have a
basic knowledge of tumbleweeds. In the dictionary, tumbleweed is defined as “Any of various densely branched annual plants, such as
amaranth and Russian thistle, that break off from the roots at the end of the
growing season and are rolled about by the wind.” DesertUsa.com says
about tumbleweeds, “Virtually everyone
recognizes the mature Russian thistle, which looks like the skeleton of a
normal shrub. Plants may be as small as a soccer ball or as large as a
Volkswagen beetle.”

If you have ever run into one of those
tumbleweeds the size of a Volkswagen, you will know that this can be serious.
This morning I drove to Amarillo, Texas on I-40 about 120 miles from my home to
visit a woman having surgery. Every mile or so another tumbleweed would roll,
spin, or bounce across my path. Sometimes cars or trucks would strike the weeds
and once I was unable to miss a spinning weed that came into the path of my
car.

What makes a tumbleweed a tumbleweed is that
it has been detached from its roots. As a result, the weed has nothing to hold
it in place, nothing to keep it from aimlessly rolling, and bouncing at the
mercy of the wind. It is a picture of a person without Christ or of a Christian
that has failed to grow in Christ and put down roots.

We can look at the lives of many people and
see that their lives resemble the path of a tumbleweed. Sadly, these people are
pushed this way and that by life. They spin and tumble never having anything to
keep them in place or give them stability. They have no roots or their roots
are very shallow. Psalm 1 describes such a
person, “The ungodly are…like the chaff which the wind
drives away.”

The child of God is to be “rooted and grounded in love,” and we are to be “rooted and built up in Him and established in the faith.”
Psalm 1 tells us of such a person, “Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the
ungodly, nor stands in the path of sinners, nor sits in the seat of the
scornful; but his delight is in the law of the LORD, and in His law he
meditates day and night. He shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water,
that brings forth its fruit in its season, whose leaf also shall not wither;
and whatever he does shall prosper.”

Which kind of person are you? Which kind do
you want to be? Are you “like the chaff which the wind
drives away?” Or, are you “like a tree planted”
by the river of living waters with your roots growing deeper and deeper?

Copyright © 2004 - 2014. Ed
Wrather. The Burning Bush website has been online since January 31, 1998. On
June 8, 1998 the email version of the Burning Bush Devotional was first sent.
Ed Wrather began writing devotionals in the early 1990s. The distribution of
these first devotionals was primarily through the Burning Bush Newsletter sent
to prison facilities throughout the United States and Canada.

Visit the
Burning Bush websites:

http://www.theburningbush.net

http://www.theburningbush.org

The .org
Burning Bush website

is being updated.

The Burning Bush websites have
received visits from more than 170 countries. Celebrating 15 years online since
January 31, 1998. Since June 8, 1998 the Burning Bush Devotional has been
spreading the truth of God's Word to more than 14,000 subscribers across the
world.

You can leave comments/feedback
about the devotionals at http://www.theburningbush.net.

There is a translation tool on
theburningbush.net website in the top left hand corner of all of the pages.

Prayer Warriors Wanted! Please join the
Burning Bush Prayer Group. The group began in 1998. Send prayer requests and
receive prayer requests. To join send an
email to: bbpg-subscribe@yahoogroups.com

Ed Wrather has retired from
pastoring full-time and has more time to pursue other ministry opportunities.
You can make contact at edwrather@yahoo.com or
theburningbushdevotional@gmail.com View LinkedIn profile with
endorsements at http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=92988105

Prayer Requests: Please pray for
the people of Ukraine and Venezuela. Many prayer needs are posted at the
Burning Bush website on the Prayer Request page. You can also post your prayer
requests there (Of course, I am always in need of prayer - please pray for
me.).

If you enjoy the devotional
please recommend it to your friends. They may subscribe by sending a blank
email to burningbushdevo-join@welovegod.org

There is a complete devotional
archive at the old Burning Bush website. Here is the URL: http://www.theburningbush.org/DevotionalArchive.html.

You can unsubscribe to the
burningbushdevo devotional group by sending a blank email to
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