Like a tree..

A tree passively resists the storms that come and go by BEING a tree. It is being what is was created to be. If I BE in the storm like the tree I still BE (incorrect grammar, correct meaning) after the storm passes. I abide in the hope of righteousness as a branch in the True Vine and I BE.

A tree exists and BE’s through the following:

• Freely Gives Effortlessly
  • oxygen
  • fruit
  • shade
• Receives Naturally
  • carbon dioxide, nutrients, water, sunlight
• Grows
  • converts food into itself and energy (transforms)
  • bears fruit (sustains life)
  • gives life (oxygen)
  • deepens and extends its roots (establishes itself naturally)

I believe the tree does all of these things according to the will of the Father.

• Eph. 1:11, “who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will”
• Col. 1:17, “And he is before all things, and by him all things consist.”
• Phil. 1:6, “Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform [it] until the day of Jesus Christ:”

Psalms 1:1-6

“¹Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor stands in the path of sinners, nor sits in the seat of the scornful; ²But his delight is in the law of the LORD, and in His law he meditates day and night. ³He shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that brings forth  its fruit in its season, whose leaf also shall not wither; and whatever he does shall prosper. ⁴The ungodly are not so, but are like the chaff which the wind drives away. ⁵Therefore the ungodly shall  not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous. ⁶For the LORD knows the way of the righteous, but the way of the ungodly shall perish.”