Friday, May 31, 2013

You Are Not A Dry Tree

Do you feel at times your life is like a tree in the autumn season? Stripped, bare and looking more dead than alive.

Promises and hopes are now buried under a bitter winter soul. Do you look around you and wonder why is it that others are more prosperous and fruitful while you don't have much to show is except a few thin bare branches?

You pray and read God's word. You make hard decisions to be separated from the world to live a holy pleasing life but still it seems that you feel, well, fruitless and even sterile.

To the eunuch God says, "Let no foreigner who is bound to the LORD say, "The LORD will surely exclude me from his people." And let no eunuch complain, "I am only a dry tree." For this is what the LORD says: "To the eunuchs who keep my Sabbaths, who choose what pleases me and hold fast to my covenant--to them I will give within my temple and its walls a memorial and a name better than sons and daughters; I will give them an everlasting name that will endure forever (Isaiah 56:3-5, NIV)."

Remember Daniel, a mighty man of prayer and who received powerful visions of the present and future? He most likely was made a eunuch after Judah was taken into exile (Daniel 1:7 KJV, Daniel and his friends answered to the prince of eunuchs). God gave Daniel extraordinary wisdom. He lived to be an old man but full of life, spiritually fruitful and wise beyond any one in the land.

Then there was the eunuch from Ethiopia who Phillip baptized (Acts 8:38). This eunuch travel hundreds of miles to participate in worship in Jerusalem. He was hungry for Jesus, searching the Scriptures in Isaiah when Phillip joined him in his chariot to explain the passage. He went home a fruitful bough, so to speak, bearing the fruit of the Spirit!

The Lord does not want us to look at our lives as a withered, dried up tree. Don't look at the surface or measure yourself to another's fruitfulness!

Remember the promise in Jeremiah 17:7-8, ""But blessed is the one who trusts in the LORD, whose confidence is in him. They will be like a tree planted by the water that sends out its roots by the stream. It does not fear when heat comes; its leaves are always green. It has no worries in a year of drought and never fails to bear fruit." (NIV).

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