Roots Give Fixity

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

Job 19:28

But you should say, Why persecute we him, seeing the root of the matter is found in me?

A root is a fixing thing. Plants without roots may be thrown over the wall; they may be passed from hand to hand; but a root is a fixing thing. How firmly the oaks are rooted in the ground. You may think of those old oaks in the park; ever so far off you have seen the roots coming out of the ground, and then they go in again, and you have said, "Why I what do these thick fibres belong to?" Surely they belong to one of those old oaks ever so far away. They had sent that root there to get a good holdfast, so that when the March wind comes through the forest and other trees are torn up — fir trees, perhaps trees that have outgrown their strength at the top, while they have too little hold at bottom — the old oaks bow to the tempest, curtsey to the storm, and anon they lift up their branches again in calm dignity; they cannot be blown down. Now if you have got the root of the matter you are fixed, you are fixed to God, fixed to Christ, fixed to things Divine.

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