Where to Plant a Tree
A timeless truth.
As children we believe the world began, or at least became extra special, the day we were born. It’s a fair foolish assumption coming from a child but its cuteness rubs off when held by college graduates. In fact, it becomes dangerous because they begin to live this belief out that they are extra specially blessed to fix the world to the detriment of the majority. Sadly, for the most part, they have become the world’s scoffers.
But blessed are those who avoid rather than engage in endless philosophical debates going nowhere, designed only to somehow prove that classical thinking — long held and taught principles on best practices for living the most fulfilled life possible — is unenlightened.
Instead the ancient text of Psalm 1 tells us that the one who will be most fruitful in living their life, regardless of the time or season they may be living in, will be the one, like a particular lucky tree, who has been planted by an endless water source.
He is like a tree planted by streams of water that yields its fruit in its season, and its leaf does not wither.
In all that he does, he prospers.
Psalm 1:3
Prosperity is the result of patient slow growth. It is a balance between receiving enough nourishment from a limitless source and walking in a blameless way. It is avoiding bad corrupt counsel as well as not listening to the scoffers who would rob us of our dreams.
[Jesus speaking]
“…but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never be thirsty again. The water that I will give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life.”
John 4:14 (ESV)
The River of Life
Then the angel showed me the river of the water of life, bright as crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb through the middle of the street of the city; also, on either side of the river, the tree of life with its twelve kinds of fruit, yielding its fruit each month. The leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.
Revelation 22:1-2 (ESV)
The Spirit and the Bride say, “Come.” And let the one who hears say, “Come.” And let the one who is thirsty come; let the one who desires take the water of life without price.