Connected to the Root

These flowers are beautiful and standing tall shinning in it's beauty. Because we are so amused by beauty we may oversee the fact they are dead just simply surviving on the remainder of water that keeps its beauty on the last string of life, before they will wilt and the petals fall. Without being connected to the root, there is no chance of life. We can try to give it more water, give it sunshine, special flower pills to try to make its beauty shine just a bit longer. But without its root, there is no life. We are flowers in this world. Filling our vases with what we think will bring us life and happiness. However, we've been so caught up in our own plans and thoughts on what happiness is, we have detached ourselves from the root of life. God is that root and only through him can one know what true happiness and life is. Have you ever stopped to wonder why one can have riches, beauty, and anything they may want but still feel unsatisfied? Lost? How can this be? You have celebrities on drugs, and millionaire bankers committing suicide.. How can this be? How can someone have "everything" and still be this unhappy. It's because they were filling their vases being detached from the root and not allowing God into their lives, the root to eternal life and true happiness. Look at your self in the mirror and look at your own eyes. (windows to your soul) Are you in a vase or on the root? The wonderful thing is, unlike this actual flower, we have a chance to reattach ourselves to the root. We have another chance to truly live and shine in the light of the Lord.

Ephesians 2:1-10 As for you, you were dead in your transgressions and sins, in which you used to live when you followed the ways of this world and of the ruler of the kingdom of the air, the spirit who is now at work in those who are disobedient. All of us also lived among them at one time, gratifying the cravings of our flesh and following its desires and thoughts. Like the rest, we were by nature deserving of wrath. But because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions—it is by grace you have been saved. And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus, in order that in the coming ages he might show the incomparable riches of his grace, expressed in his kindness to us in Christ Jesus. For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God— not by works, so that no one can boast. For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.