A three-minute read
One day, walking down a road, I noticed a tree growing in an arid, dry cracked ground, without water and looked withered and brown. I saw a man come, and attempt to break off the branches. Dry and brittle, they broke off easily and he took all of them and used them for firewood.
Another day, we were driving near a stream and I noticed another tree. The branches were greenish in color, full of sap and juicy. It was not easy to crack them. I again remembered the dry cracked branches of the other tree and was inspired with these thoughts:
I thought of how easy it was to crack off the dry and dead. Started thinking of a parched soul, how easy it was for Satan to wreck it up because it had nothing to sustain it. Our lives become like cracked dry twigs when we are spiritually malnourished.
If we hardly spend time nourishing and feeding our souls and receiving the Word to nourish us, we can crack up and break down every easily. A slight trigger can turn on the trouble and we feel withered and burned out.
When we are well watered and feed our souls spiritually, stress cannot take us down easily. The work of the Destroyer cannot crack us and break us and he will eventually leave us alone.
Chose to live with “your branches full of sap” to be spiritually strong. Chose ways to feed and strengthen your soul and spirit. People who live this way live longer and healthier and they are crowned with longevity!
AMPC: Psalm 104:16: The trees of the Lord are watered abundantly and are filled with sap, the cedars of Lebanon which He has planted,
ASV Psalm 92:12-15: The righteous will flourish like a palm tree, they will grow like a cedar of Lebanon; 13 planted in the house of the Lord, they will flourish in the courts of our God. 14 They will still bear fruit in old age, they will stay fresh and green, 15 proclaiming, “The Lord is upright; He is my Rock
© Rita F. Kurian
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