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SHEVAT 20

Well-Watered

 

“For he shall be as a tree planted by the rivers of water …” (Ps 1:3)

 

When we purchased our property some ten years ago, we were handed a basically virgin piece of ground with a house sitting on it.  There was really no yard around the house to speak of, and certainly no lawn at all.  We have since been attempting to create something – planting flowers here, a few trees there, an island with various flowers in the middle.  However, what surprised us the most was the cottonwood trees that have appeared out of nowhere, trees that we did not plant, some of which are now over ten feet tall!  All we can surmise is that the cottonwood seeds must have been deposited by the many birds that fly in and out of our yard (we feed the birds), and then with the added water (I water daily during the summer), these ‘gate-crashing’ trees have exploded in growth.

 

Water is frequently indicative of Elohim’s Word, the Torah.  And as with these cottonwood trees, the more ‘water’ that is applied to our lives, the more we will grow, and grow.  With less ‘water’, our growth is minimal, and our fruit is stunted.  May we all find ourselves with an unquenchable thirst for the kadosh – holy, and set apart - things of our Creator, for His truth, and His ways.  In Yeshua’s Name, Amein!

 

“O Elohim, You are my Ěl; I earnestly seek You; My being has thirsted for You; My flesh has longed for You In a dry and thirsty land without water.” (Ps 63:1)

 

“As a deer longs for the water streams, So my being longs for You, O Elohim.  My being thirsts for Elohim, for the living Ěl. When shall I enter in to appear before Elohim?” (Ps 42:1-2)

 

“And they shall come in and shall sing on the height of Tsiyon, and stream to the goodness of יהוה, for grain and for new wine and for oil, and for the young of the flock and the herd. And their being shall be like A WELL-WATERED GARDEN, and never languish again.” (Jer 31:12, emphasis mine)

 

 

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