Today’s Devotional Written By An Insightful Young Woman: Tracy Koweh
Blood is Thicker than Water
And the Root of the Problem is...Part 1
Ecclesiastes 3:1-3 (New Living Translation)
1 For everything there is a season, a time for every activity under heaven. 2 A time to be born and a time to die. A time to plant and a time to harvest. 3 A time to kill and a time to heal. A time to tear down and a time to build up.
My grandmother is a gardener. All my life I remember her in her garden, and even now in her sassy senior years she still takes care of flowers both indoors and outside. Her green thumb spirit never quite fully jumped on me, but I do remember her telling me that if you're going to pull a weed or flower up, then you betta pull it til the root comes out. See so many times when my cousins and I were on "weed-pulling" duty we would just pull off the top portion so we could hurry up and go play. We were not mature enough or wise enough to understand that we were only making more work for us to do later in life. By not pulling the weeds up from the root, we left it lying in hiding but not dead. In a matter of days more weeds would pop up and they would be harder to pull out.
Another reason we didn't want to pull the roots out, was because it was harder to do. It required more strength and strain than we were willing to give. Sad but true, many times in our family history, this is what we do. We handle the part of the weed that we can see. We shun our children for bad behavior, look the other way at drunken Uncle Billy Bob, or disown the homosexual. We never sit down and handle the root of the problem. Our children are our seeds, and we are the seeds of our parents. So maybe, just maybe we are the reason our children are off the chain right now. Maybe our grandmother is the reason we allow men to disrespect us, or our father is the reason men beat on women. We are all so busy trying to disguise our past and dress up our present, that the roots of our past are killing the flowers left in the garden for tomorrow.
God is calling us all to look deep within ourselves and where we truly come from. Some things we are battling are from seeds sown long ago. Some demons are attacking us because no one in the generations before us stood up and pleaded the blood of Jesus. We can no longer continue to walk around and think that the stuff we are trying to keep buried underground will not surface. God is giving us an opportunity to clean out our own gardens with His guidance, before He comes in with His own demolition crew. When God starts pulling things up, it won't matter if you're on board or not.
Today stop pointing the finger and start using your hands to pull up the roots that are destroying our families, our homes, our children, our churches, our communities, and our lives. Ask God to give you a green thumb for your family tree and get to work. The longer you leave a root to grow, the bigger, stronger and deeper it gets rooted. Stop generational curses now, before there are no more generations to curse.
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