Resurrection Day 346: Family Tree

I closed my eyes as I asked God to speak to me. “Show me my life through Your eyes. God, what does my future look life?”
I saw fields upon fields of ripe wheat. I saw myself walking through those fields while my fingers ran across many of the stalks. I saw God’s light all around and I had no glasses on. Every time I see any part of heaven on earth, I have restored vision. No glasses. It’s a wonder.
Oh, Lord, let heaven come to earth in my eyes. Let my sight be restored!
Then I saw Chris. He stood on one side of a giant tree and I on the other. Somehow our hands touched as we were on either side of this giant tree. Only God. I can’t explain everything in a vision…some of it is always a wonder.
Then I saw our family tree.
God showed me that Chris and I are meant to begin…begin our own family tree. Having cut off old roots and generational strongholds, sins, and curses from both sides…we now stand as a first fruit. A first generation of a new thing God is doing. A separate tree altogether.
Our own family line.
It’s in our union that God is interested in restoring and renewing and building upon.
Leave and cleave.
We all say it so cavalierly, yet don’t even begin to truly understand it and live it out.
We are meant to begin something new when we marry. Completely new.
Leave and cleave and begin to grow.
We’ve been leaning more and more into what it means to do this. Here we are 20 years into marriage, yet in some ways we are just now finding the separateness God always intended.
Chris and I and God are one. A separate family. The beginning of new generational hand me downs. This time, determined to bless.
Generational blessings. Generational abundance. Generational restoration.
We are learning to focus on the fruit. Tending it. Pushing into our new root structure and letting nourishment for our fruits to come from that holy place.
Root well, friends.
Invite God to rout out the enemy, and re-root your family tree. It’s never too late to begin again. To decide that your family tree will be full of generational blessings.
You will be blessed when you come in and blessed when you go out. Deuteronomy 28:6
This is why a man leaves his father and mother and is united to his wife, and they become one flesh. Genesis 2:24