“...that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that he might be glorified.”
Isaiah 61:3
Throughout the year, farms and nurseries worldwide plant all sorts of crops, flowers, and trees for food and beauty. They plant multiple seeds or tubules hoping to have a bountiful yield, free of any blights. Growers would like an efficient planting system where their plants would naturally reproduce enough that they wouldn’t need to keep buying new seeds, nor replant as much the next season. A self-sufficient system would be best. They would gladly transplant as needed and watch their fields become prolific with a potential harvest.
God is in the reproduction business. He wants to have children who will bear the fruit of His character. This fruit may have a seed or perhaps multiple seeds that if replanted in our hearts, lived faithfully, and shared with others, will create more trees of righteousness…more Christians with the potential to reproduce more and more. This never-ending cycle creates orchards of Christian soldiers zealous to honor God’s glory!
God has offsprings, “trees” that carry His image-reproducing DNA in their cells. Imagine being born with the nature and power of God to replenish the earth with Love. What spiritual beauty, harmony, and peace were present in the Garden of Eden before sin. Adam and Eve possessed agape in the genesis of human existence and experienced the heavenly bliss of being one with God! Love was alive everywhere! God was supremely happy:
Not unto us, O Lord, not unto us, but unto thy name give glory, for thy mercy, and for thy truth's sake. Psalm 115:1
The forty-six chromosomes in each of Adam's cells and the twenty-three pairs in Eve's were healthy and free from genetic mutations. The whole entire earth was full of God’s glory; His children were sin-free. They were free from the cancerous mutations caused by disobedience. Satan and sin were powerless in such a pure atmosphere and the same can be true in the life of couples (Elizabeth and Zachariah); and children (Abel, Seth, Samuel, Joseph, John the Baptist, and Jesus). What about me, what about you?
Blessed is the man that trusteth in the LORD, and whose hope the LORD is.
For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, and that spreadeth out her roots by the river, and shall not see when heat cometh, but her leaf shall be green; and shall not be careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit.
Jeremiah 17: 7, 8
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