Take Root

Take Root

When a gardener begins to plant a flower bed, he takes into account the condition of the soil, the weather and the environment, and chooses to plant the flowers that will thrive in those conditions.
He does not plant a delicate flower that will die in a dry place, if that is the condition, but chooses something that can weather it. Nor does he plant a sturdy desert plant where there will not be plenty of sun. So too, I have chosen you and planted you in a place that you will thrive.
I have plucked you out of where you were, and planted you in a place where you will indeed flourish. So trust in me, when I have led you to a place. Trust that in that place, you will flourish and spring up into life.
So take root and make yourself at home. Allow yourself to be planted. Just as a plant brought in from a nursery is transplanted, you will feel out of place and perhaps vulnerable at first. But just as that same plant grabs hold of the new soil and weaves its roots in with the new, so you must commit yourself to where I have led you.
As you take root and allow me to water you here, you will indeed flourish and come to life. You will blossom and bloom as a flower naturally does, but first trust in me and take root in this flower bed, says the Lord. Amen.