Fall is here! I LOVE to see beautiful colors, especially the orange and yellow ones. We dont have as many this year, due to all of the Tropical Storms, etc we have had. But, as I was reading in Psalm 1, the Lord showed me something about Fall leaves.
Psalms 1 described the Blessed man in the Lord. It describes how that man lives, what he does, and what his end will be. Verse 3 "And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth is fruit in his season; HIS LEAF SHALL NOT WITHER, and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper." I looked up the definition of "leaf." It is "a flattened structure of a HIGHER PLANT ....that is attached to stem directly or via a stalk." Does the Bible not say " I am the Vine, ye are the branches; He that abideth in me and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit; for without me ye can do nothing." John 15: 5. We are the leaves on the Lord's Tree of Life, the "HIGHER PLANT." To become a leaf, we had to be BORN INTO THE TREE!!! "Ye must be BORN AGAIN..." John 3:7.
The color of the leaves of a tree tell a lot about the life of themselves. When they are first grown, or "born", they are green. Green is the color of life, and they are that color due to a chemical CHANGE that takes place in the leaf. "...old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new." II Corinth. 5:12. Photosynthesis is the process of the leaf that creates the food fuel needed FROM THE SUN AND ITS LIGHT and WATER, to change the "bad" byproducts from carbon dioxide, into air, or oxygen. Being planted by the "rivers of water" don't we as Christians do the same? Our "food fuel" spiritually comes from THE SUN of RIGHTEOUSNESS HIMSELF(Malachi 4:2) and the Water of His Word gives us the life we need!He rids us of the "by-products" of sin as we spiritually grow in Him. "But GROW IN GRACE , and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ...." II Peter 3:18.
If verse 3 says "his leaf shall not wither", then how does this match up to the fall leaves???? Well, to the physical eye, the leaf outwardly looks to be perishing. It is "PHYSICALLY" dying. The break-down of the chlorophyll is what gives the leaves the beautiful colors that appear. Chlorophyll of the leaf is ITS OWN ENERGY SUPPLY, that makes the leaf depend on self for its life. As new Christians we green, new and tender in our spiritual life. As we grow, we should depend MORE AND MORE on the Lord for our STRENGTH! We should spiritually "breakdown" as well. Paul said"....though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day." II Corinth. 4:16. As we learn that "He must increase, and I must decrease," John 3:30, we "die to self". We should be in agreement with Paul when he said "..I die daily." I Corinth. 15:31. When we die to our own wants and desires and consume the Water of the Word for our fuel, others will see the Lord's beauty on us! We will not, but they will!!!! Is this not what happened to Moses when he came down from Mt. Sinai when receiving the 10 Commandments??? The children of Israel saw it and he didn't know it! His face shone so bright with the Lord that he had to put a vale over his face! Did not the men of the Sanhedrin say the same of Peter and John when they saw their boldness for the name of Jesus?? "Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and perceived that they were unlearned and ignorant men, they MARVELED: AND THEY TOOK KNOWLEDGE THAT THEY HAD BEEN WITH JESUS." Acts 4:13. Our TRUE SPIRITUAL COLORS will come shining through when we have been sitting at Jesus' feet.
If we keep our Spiritual Man planted by the Rivers of Water as the Psalms says, we will be strengthened daily and grow in grace by the Lord's power and might. Just like verse 2 says, our delight should be in the Law of the Lord and we should meditate in it day and night. Then we will bring forth fruit in our season and our inward "leaf" or man WILL NOT WITHER!!! Inwardly we will be an EVERGREEN LEAF! Although it may look to the world that we are weak, feeble, and even dying. the beauty of the Lord can shine through us if we have been with Him!!! His true Majesty and Beauty can shine through us for others to see, bringing ONLY HIM honor and glory.
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