Grounding

 Grounding...it seems to be "a thing".  I can't tell you how long it has been around, but theoretically forever, as long as people have walked barefoot on the earth. 

"Grounding, is a practice where your body makes contact with the Earth's surface, like walking barefoot or using grounding devices. The theory is that this contact helps your body connect with the Earth's electrical charge, potentially reducing inflammation and pain."

It has become something in myrealm as some family are trying it.

But, you know me...and my mind!

Grounding is fundamental as a Christian. 

Grounded in our faith, rooted in our relationship 

with Christ.

Jesus told stories, parables, to help His followers

understand the importance of grounding their faith.

📖 “Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock. The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house; yet it did not fall, because it had its foundation on the rock.  But everyone who hears these words of mine and does not put them into practice is like a foolish man who built his house on sand.  The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell with a great crash.”   Mathew 7:24-27

📖  “Listen then to what the parable of the sower means:  When anyone hears the message about the kingdom and does not understand it, the evil one comes and snatches away what was sown in their heart. This is the seed sown along the path.  The seed falling on rocky ground refers to someone who hears the word and at once receives it with joy.  But since they have no root, they last only a short time. When trouble or persecution comes because of the word, they quickly fall away.  The seed falling among the thorns refers to someone who hears the word, but the worries of this life and the deceitfulness of wealth choke the word, making it unfruitful.  But the seed falling on good soil refers to someone who hears the word and understands it. This is the one who produces a crop, yielding a hundred, sixty or thirty times what was sown.” Matthew 13:18-23 (NIV)

 Faith in Christ, the Son of God.

We are to be grounded, established, rooted in Jesus teachings 

📖 So then, just as you have received Christ Jesus as Lord, continue to walk in him,  being rooted and built up in him and established in the faith, just as you were taught, and overflowing with gratitude. Be careful that no one takes you captive through philosophy and empty deceit based on human tradition, based on the elements of the world, rather than Christ. Colossians 2:6-8 (CSB)

Remaining grounded is what gives us strength and hope.

📖   Once you were alienated and hostile in your minds because of your evil actions.  But now He has reconciled you by His physical body through His death, to present you holy, faultless, and blameless before Him— if indeed you remain grounded and steadfast in the faith and are not shifted away from the hope of the gospel that you heard. This gospel has been proclaimed in all creation under heaven, and I, Paul, have become a servant of it.  Colossians 1 HCSB

Spending our time in His word, and in communication with Him everyday will help keep us grounded in our Source, our Foundation. 

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📖 For this reason I bow my knees to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, from whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named, that He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with might through His Spirit in the inner man, that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the width and length and depth and height— to know the love of Christ which passes knowledge; that you may be filled with all the fullness of God. Now to Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us,  to Him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus to all generations, forever and ever. Amen. ❤️ Ephesians 3:14-21 (NKJV)