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Posted on 11/02/2020 5:59:24 PM PST by laurenmarlowe
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Bible in a Year:
That person is like a tree planted by streams of water, which yields its fruit in season.
Some call him the “tree whisperer.” Tony Rinaudo is, in fact, World Vision Australia’s tree maker. He’s a missionary and agronomist engaged in a thirty-year effort to share Jesus by combating deforestation across Africa’s Sahel, south of the Sahara.
Realizing stunted “shrubs” were actually dormant trees, Rinaudo started pruning, tending, and watering them. His work inspired hundreds of thousands of farmers to save their failing farms by restoring nearby forests, reversing soil erosion. Farmers in Niger, for example, have doubled their crops and their income, providing food for an additional 2.5 million people per year.
In John 15, Jesus, the creator of agriculture, referred to similar farming tactics when He said, “I am the true vine, and my Father is the gardener. He cuts off every branch in me that bears no fruit, while every branch that does bear fruit he prunes so that it will be even more fruitful” (vv. 1–2).
Without the daily tending of God, our souls grow barren and dry. When we delight in His law, however, meditating on it day and night, we are “like a tree planted by streams of water” (Psalm 1:3). Our leaves will “not wither” and “whatever [we] do prospers” (v. 3). Pruned and planted in Him, we’re evergreen—revived and thriving.
Where and how do you sense your soul being tended by God? What do you do to “delight” in Scripture?
O Gardener God, I yield my stunted places to Your pruning and watering, surrendering my dry places to grow green and revived in You.
To learn more about growing spiritually, visit Odb.org/Courses/spiritual-life-basics.
I voted already. Via absentee ballot in CT.
Did a VBM two weeks ago...PA Department of State tracking site indicates ballot received back!
Me too, did early voting here a couple of weeks ago.
YAY!
WOO HOO lightman, way to go!
~ VOTE 2020! ~
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I did my part and voted last week.
I voted Trump early.
I voted on my Birthday, Oct. 17. For Trump, of course, and Rep down ticket.
Beautiful thread, Lauren! (((Hugs)))
Hai Kathy!!! (((HUGS))) Overnight in Cleveland then down to Orlando in the morning and up to St. Looie, Denver and home.
Done and confirmed
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