The Healthy Tree

The Healthy Tree

The healthy tree is a symbol of strength and life in the Bible. There are a lot of qualities in trees that humans admire but there is a scripture that really brings that out.

In the first chapter of the Book of Psalms, we are told what a blessed person is like. The Blessed man, says the Psalmist, chooses to hang out with good people and reads the Bible a lot. When you commit yourself to those two things, you are just like a tree:

Psalms 1:3

“He will be like a tree firmly planted by streams of water, which yields its fruit in its season and its leaf does not wither; and in whatever he does, he prospers.”

What is it about a tree that is so admirable? Healthy trees are a picture of stability. A healthy tree is there every day, just doing what a tree is supposed to do. It gives shade from the sun when it is hot, it gives shelter from the rain when it is wet, it lives, grows and produces. It is always there, every day.

Healthy trees don’t move or change. They are the same, day in and day out. A maple tree never becomes an oak and you never wake up in the morning and find out that the tree that was in your front yard moved to the back of the house.

There is a picture in this that God wants us to see. The healthy tree represents the godly person. Godly people are dependable and steady. They are always growing and producing fruit. Their roots are anchored-in and immovable.

Is this a picture of your life? It’s not easy to become this person. It takes time and work; prayer and patience; trial and error; failure and success.

That is our goal. The journey of a thousand steps starts with the first one. So, open the Word and get going. In no time at all, you will notice the roots digging in and branches spreading out.

It’s a journey worth committing to.

Revelation 22:14

“Blessed are those who wash their robes, so that they may have the right to the tree of life.”