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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Mar 28, 1907

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 84, No. 13.

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Rooted in Him

By W. A. S.

“I AM the root.” Rev. 22:16. The root gathers from the soil the elements needed for the nourishment and growth of the plant. Jesus says to the believer, “I am the root.”
He is to us who believe what the root is to the plant. His is the responsibility of nourishing and sustaining the life. He knows the elements needful for our growth. There can be no drying up of the supply in the life that is rooted deep in him.
“Blessed is the man that trusteth in the Lord, and whose hope the Lord is. For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, and that spreadeth out her roots by the river, and shall not see when heat cometh, but her leaf shall be green; and shall not be careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit.” Jer. 17:7, 8.
The hot blast may beat upon the tree, but its root is spread deep along the watercourses. Our Root, Jesus our Saviour, is by the river of water of life. It was just after showing John in vision the river of life, clear as crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb, that the Saviour said, “I am the root.” Blessed message to our hearts in this dry and thirsty land.
We have not to maintain, of ourselves, our own spiritual life, but to maintain our connection with the Root. Let the heart’s affections lay hold by faith upon Jesus, as he leads his people in the shining pathway to the city of God. Just as we become Seventh-day Adventists by believing the advent truth as it is in Jesus, so let us continue rooted and grounded in it, rejoicing in the Saviour and the “blessed hope” of his soon coming. To us all now, so near the end of the pathway, the Lord says:—
“As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in him: rooted and built up in him, and established in the faith, as ye have been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving. Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ. For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily.” Col. 2:6-9.
Blessed is the man who walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, but whose delight is in the law of the Lord, and whose heart and life are rooted in Christ Jesus. “He shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.” Ps. 1:1-3.
W. A. S.