Rooted in Love -- Shining in Life

"That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love." (Ephesians 3: 17)

God is love (1 John 4: 16), and He showered His love on us by sending His Son Jesus to die on the Cross for us (1 John 4: 10 and to give us His life (John 3: 16).

Until man is rooted in the love of God, which transforms him from dead in his trespasses (Ephesians 2: 1) to alive in Christ Jesus (Philippians 1: 21), then he will be unstable and unsettled, unsure of who he is or why he is.

"Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world." (1 John 4: 17)

Who we are depends on who He is, and the greater your revelation of who he is, then the more rooted and ground you will be, and the more that you will shine in this dark world.

Love defines us -- God's love shines on the whole world through His Son, and through His Holy Spirit we receive His Son living in us, that we may shine for others. God called us to be shining stars before we were even born:

"And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now toward heaven, and tell the stars, if thou be able to number them: and he said unto him, So shall thy seed be." (Genesis 15: 5)

Every believer in the Body of Christ is of Abraham's seed:

"And if ye be Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise." (Galatians 3: 29)

Because we have received the adoption of children through Christ:

"Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will," (Ephesians 1: 5)

We are now sons of light and sons of the day (1 Thessalonians 5: 5). In us, the Sun of righteousness (Malachi 4: 2) and the Light of the world (John 8: 12) will break forth through us.

Grow in grace and knowledge of the Lord (2 Peter 3: 18), feed on His love, and shine!