June 19, 2025

Day 171 Rooted in Love | Ephesians 3:17–18

Day 171 Rooted in Love | Ephesians 3:17–18

Send us a text What foundation are you building your spiritual life upon? Today's reflection takes us to Ephesians 3:17-18, exploring what it truly means to be "rooted and established in love." This isn't just another emotional message – it's a transformational paradigm shift for how we approach our faith journey. Many of us unconsciously build our spiritual lives on duty, fear, or achievement. These motivations might drive consistent behavior temporarily, but they crumble under pressure. Pa...

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What foundation are you building your spiritual life upon? Today's reflection takes us to Ephesians 3:17-18, exploring what it truly means to be "rooted and established in love." This isn't just another emotional message – it's a transformational paradigm shift for how we approach our faith journey.

Many of us unconsciously build our spiritual lives on duty, fear, or achievement. These motivations might drive consistent behavior temporarily, but they crumble under pressure. Paul's prayer reveals a better way – when Christ dwells in our hearts, we become grounded in a love that sustains us through every season.

The transformative power comes when we genuinely believe God loves us at our worst, not just our best. Our service becomes an overflow of gratitude rather than an attempt to earn favor. We forgive faster. We love others with more grace. We stop working for approval and start working from love. This subtle shift changes everything about how we experience and express our faith.

God's love has dimensions – width, length, height, and depth – that we're invited to explore throughout our lifetime. Each new season reveals another facet of divine love we hadn't previously understood. As we continually ask God to reveal His love to us, our roots grow deeper into this truth, and our entire approach to the Christian life shifts from duty-driven religion to love-motivated devotion.

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00:00 - Welcome to Wisdom for the Day

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Welcome to Wisdom for the Day, your daily source for spiritual refreshment and guidance.

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I'm Rick.

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Join me as I dive into God's Word to find clarity and strength for life's challenges.

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Let me help you embrace each day with faith and wisdom, ready to feel inspired.

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Let's get started.

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Let's get started.

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Today is day 171, rooted in Love.

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From Ephesians, chapter 3, verses 17 and 18, from the New Living Translation, that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith, and I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power to grasp how wide and how long and high and deep is the love of Christ.

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Paul's prayer isn't just for us to know love, it's for us to be rooted in it, because love is more than a feeling, it's a foundation.

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If your faith is built on duty or fear or achievement, it won't last.

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But when you're rooted in God's love, when you believe he loves you at your worst, not just your best, everything changes.

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You start to love others with more grace, you forgive faster, you serve with more joy, because you're not working for approval, you're working from love.

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God's love is bigger than you know, wider than you've explored, stronger than you've trusted.

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So ask him to show you again and again, let your roots go deep into it and live from there.

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Pray with me, jesus.

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Let your love be the soul my heart grows in.

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I want to be rooted and established on how deeply you care for me.

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Help me grasp it more today and help me live like I truly believe it, amen.

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Hey, thanks for listening all week.

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Today's Friday that means tomorrow is Saturday and weekends with Lauren.

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She's got two episodes coming up.

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She's worked really hard on them.

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Give her some support.

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I love you, see ya.

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I love you See ya.

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Well, that's all for today, but I'll be back tomorrow with more of God's Word.

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The executive producer for Wisdom of the day is Lauren King.

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Quality control engineer is Yelena McClellan.

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Intro and outro music by Weston McCurry.

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Until tomorrow, I'm Rick.

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I love you See ya.