Proverbs 11:28
He that trusteth in his riches shall fall:
But the righteous shall flourish as a branch.
The poetic and prophetic king compares us to trees. Trees offer very good analogies teaching us right and wrong.
The biggest mistake a tree could make is one beautiful spring morning, to look at its strong trunk, its healthy protective bark, its fruitful branches and decide that it did not need this sappy messy stuff running through him anymore. Our tree could say, "Behold, I have a strong trunk; I don't really have to have this hidden sap, this unseen quantity, this unknown and unreliable and doubtful "inspiration" (God’s Spirit) that flows beneath the surface. I can do without it, because it keeps doing new and unexpected things and bursting into new blossoms and new branches. I just can't have this going on all the time because it creates issues. I ‘ve got all the branches and all the fruit I need. Now I've got to stop this life-giving flow that creates so many problems, and it's very simple. We'll just cut a little circle around my trunk just beneath the bark, just under the surface to choke off the sap, it'll hardly even be noticed. “ So he cuts off the flow of the sap. That's all we have to do to a tree to kill it. Just to just cut through the cambium layer just under the bark completely around the tree; to just strip off a little bit of that bark around the tree and just cut a little tiny groove through the cambium layer that carries the life-giving sap and our tree dies.
Oh, what a foolish tree. Yes, the inspiration of God’s spirit within us becomes problematic at times. It brings us righteousness, but it also constantly brings up new issues that we have to sort through. It’s conviction can be painful, but without it we die, and just like the tree, we fall.
He that trusteth in his riches shall fall:
But the righteous shall flourish as a branch.
The poetic and prophetic king compares us to trees. Trees offer very good analogies teaching us right and wrong.
The biggest mistake a tree could make is one beautiful spring morning, to look at its strong trunk, its healthy protective bark, its fruitful branches and decide that it did not need this sappy messy stuff running through him anymore. Our tree could say, "Behold, I have a strong trunk; I don't really have to have this hidden sap, this unseen quantity, this unknown and unreliable and doubtful "inspiration" (God’s Spirit) that flows beneath the surface. I can do without it, because it keeps doing new and unexpected things and bursting into new blossoms and new branches. I just can't have this going on all the time because it creates issues. I ‘ve got all the branches and all the fruit I need. Now I've got to stop this life-giving flow that creates so many problems, and it's very simple. We'll just cut a little circle around my trunk just beneath the bark, just under the surface to choke off the sap, it'll hardly even be noticed. “ So he cuts off the flow of the sap. That's all we have to do to a tree to kill it. Just to just cut through the cambium layer just under the bark completely around the tree; to just strip off a little bit of that bark around the tree and just cut a little tiny groove through the cambium layer that carries the life-giving sap and our tree dies.
Oh, what a foolish tree. Yes, the inspiration of God’s spirit within us becomes problematic at times. It brings us righteousness, but it also constantly brings up new issues that we have to sort through. It’s conviction can be painful, but without it we die, and just like the tree, we fall.
Our life depends on it.
We cannot like the foolish tree decide to ‘retire’ from receiving God’s ‘Sap’. There is no retirement plan in Yahweh’s program. As long as His Spirit flows through our ‘veins’, we flourish in His righteousness, but once we solidify ourselves in our ideas and spirit, once we decide to stop the flow and rely on what we already have, we lose it and we die in our sinful concepts.
Let us now ponder on this analogy of the foolish tree. God’s ‘Sap’ creates life, brings righteousness, change, idea; it sometimes even wrecks havoc in seemingly already well-set situations. Are we ready to receive it, or do we rather solidify in order to keep our quiet modus operandi?
We cannot like the foolish tree decide to ‘retire’ from receiving God’s ‘Sap’. There is no retirement plan in Yahweh’s program. As long as His Spirit flows through our ‘veins’, we flourish in His righteousness, but once we solidify ourselves in our ideas and spirit, once we decide to stop the flow and rely on what we already have, we lose it and we die in our sinful concepts.
Let us now ponder on this analogy of the foolish tree. God’s ‘Sap’ creates life, brings righteousness, change, idea; it sometimes even wrecks havoc in seemingly already well-set situations. Are we ready to receive it, or do we rather solidify in order to keep our quiet modus operandi?
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