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fruit after his kind and the seed is within itself. We We are like trees in this world. We are in this world,
have everything within us to yield fruit after His but not of it, a counterculture that is expected to en-
kind, the fruit of the Holy Spirit. act change. In Mark 8:22-25, we see Jesus leading a

blind man from the crowd and touching his eyes.
The touch caused him to see men as trees walking.
In Jeremiah 17 and Psalm 1, Jeremiah and David
We see women hiding broken souls behind brave compare us to trees planted by the water with the
smiles, a society manipulating free will as the expectation to bear fruit in his own season.
choice to play God and decide when life ends and
begins, and a church that is locked and loaded with The water is the Word that we are supposed to medi-
a mouth, a word and a Holy Spirit, but the world is tate on day and night instead of men’s logic.
developing empty spiritual cavities from feeding off
sweet error. As we spring forward into the
second quarter of 2019, we
We must ask ourselves: Whose fruit we are bear-
ing? must do a fruit inspection and
examine our root systems.

WHEN I SEE A Trees come in so many varieties, but I In the spring we wit-
TREE! am truly amazed by the ones that span ness the buds and

When I see a Tree… as wide as they are long. I often won- beautiful flowers of
I see one of God’s der, how is it that that single trunk can the leaves coming
Masterpieces... hold and support all those branches, forth and in the fall
leaves and fruit. Sometimes looking at
was witness the dying
them, the laws of gravity are defied. of the leaves. The
I see Strength process a leaf takes to die if beautiful.
Protection
Dignity God is truly amazing and just by ex-
Stature amining one of His creations, the tree,
Infrastructure we can see His love! If He made a tree
Authority so beautiful, can you imagine just how
beautiful He sees you? So when you
I see Endurance look in the mirror, search for the attrib-
Flexibility utes above because they are also
Balance Then we have trees like the palm tree placed within you. We are to be as
Beauty that are so tall and when a storm like trees according to the scriptures.
Life comes they bend due to the pressure,
Abundance but they don’t break. They return to
the normal position once the pressure
I see Gifts subsides.
Talents
Abilities Let’s look at the evergreen, and its
Surrendered Wills name states, it is always green. It is
not affected by the elements and it
Life with Purpose
stands with authority.

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