Seeds on stones

Luk 8:13  They on the rock are they, which, when they hear, receive the word with joy; and these have no root, which for a while believe, and in time of temptation fall away.

They have no root.  We need to make sure that we, and our families are rooted in the truth.  The Galatian church seems to have had shallow roots:

Gal 3:1-4  O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you, that ye should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently set forth, crucified among you?  (2)  This only would I learn of you, Received ye the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?  (3)  Are ye so foolish? having begun in the Spirit, are ye now made perfect by the flesh?  (4)  Have ye suffered so many things in vain? if it be yet in vain.

How can we be sure that our roots run deep.  I propose that our every thought, word and action ought to be firmly based in, and in conformity to the truth of our situation.  Our situation that was created by the specifics of Christ's birth, death and resurrection, and all that entails.

Peter puts it this way:

2Pe 1:1-11  Simon Peter, a servant and an apostle of Jesus Christ, to them that have obtained like precious faith with us through the righteousness of God and our Saviour Jesus Christ:  (2)  Grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of God, and of Jesus our Lord,  (3)  According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue:  (4)  Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.  (5)  And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge;  (6)  And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness;  (7)  And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity.  (8)  For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.  (9)  But he that lacketh these things is blind, and cannot see afar off, and hath forgotten that he was purged from his old sins.  (10)  Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall:  (11)  For so an entrance shall be ministered unto you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.

Verses 1-4 speak about our true situation.  Verses 5-7 speak about a life that is entrenched in those truths...a life that makes sense in light of the truth. Verses 8-11, back to the original verse, seems to be saying that if our lives reflect the truth of the Gospel practically, then the seed will have deep soil in which to put down a large root system.  We won't be like the forgetful man in James 1:

Jas 1:22-25  But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.  (23)  For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass:  (24)  For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was.  (25)  But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.

Let me stress as of the utmost importance that this "doing" in no way takes the place of the finished work of Christ on our behalf, but rather represents a way of living that is in conformity to it!  A big difference.  When we fail to "live up to" the perfection of Christ, we know we are justified by Him, and that atonement has been made by Him.  So we confess our sin, and keep on "going for it" as hard and as fast as we can, because we are sons of the Father.

Thoughts?