Roots.
Keep digging.
Yep.
Keep digging.
Kind of tired of digging.
Keep digging.
Get to. Not have to.
Keep digging.
Soul soil is endless.
Keep digging.
Pound the shovel in. Thud. Root.
That's not bad.
Rootage isn't bad.
Keep digging.
The roots of our early brothers and sisters in the bible book of Acts were communal. Roaming around in chapter four, starting in verse 32 you get these words. "All the believers were one in heart and mind." Well, if you and I simply consider just our own individual heart even right this second, you know that to be able to say anything about any group of people being of one heart and mind is completely and only supernatural. That's just not how we roll on our own. Oneness was communal. They were sharing possessions. They were sharing words of power and resurrection. And it was affecting their daily living.
Think about when someone else cares for you in some way. A kind and life giving word. A deed done towards you or your family. Think about when you care for someone else in some way. You're with them in celebration. You're with them in grieving. When this communal WITH is happening, something of these communal roots stirs in us. Somehow, I think we know that those roots are real. And it is a good gift. And it affects our daily living.
Keep digging.
And there are other roots. Earlier roots. Genesis roots. Previous roots. Hard roots. Our roots too. Adam and Eve are named and we are named with them. We spell our names with their letters. We were there. Before these communal roots in early Acts, there were individual, selfish, satanic roots growing, digging in. And that is hard. We see these roots early in a garden and we see them creeping into the communal roots of Acts as Ananias and Sapphira drop dead in lies and stinginess. And us. And that is hard. And it was affecting their daily living, Adam and Ananias. And us.
Keep digging.
And, our Genesis roots are not our earliest roots. Trinity is! Oh yes. The deception of the garden and Acts is not the first relating. The perfect love, holiness and relating of Father, Son and Spirit previous to us is our deepest root. And we are named with them when we are in Jesus. We spell our names with their letters. B-E-L-O-V-E-D D-A-U-G-H-T-E-R, B-E-L-O-V-E-D S-O-N. We were there. And so this is the rootage that is emerging, re-emerging as our early church family were in one heart and mind. That is ongoing growth. That is encouraging. And it affects our daily living, today.
So.
Keep digging, dear one.
Holy rootage.
Real today.
More real than fake.
Keep digging.
There's more.