Even though it doesn’t feel like it yet, next week is spring. This season conjures up hope like no other. We watch and wait for the promise that each new bud and warmer day brings. Even in the years that we thought it would never come, the Bible promises, “As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night shall not cease.” (Genesis 8:22) (NIV)

I don’t know much from experience about plants and trees. To be quite honest, I don’t have a green thumb and manage to kill any plant that has the misfortune of coming to my house. However, I do know that plants need nourishment to grow.  God designed them that way.  He made trees with a root system that goes down in the soil and embeds itself with life-giving nutrients.

God not only made trees with a need for nourishment, but he also made us with a need for spiritual nourishment. Not only does he create us with that need but he tells us in his word how to fulfill it. He tells us to plant our roots and stay close to the source that feeds our soul. The only source that will give us all we need to grow and flourish is God himself. Wouldn’t this spring be a great time to renew the commitment to quench our spiritual thirst with the Living Water? Happy Spring and happy growing!

“Blessed is the one who does not walk in step with the wicked or stand in the way that sinners take or sit in the company of mockers, but whose delight is in the law of the LORD, and who meditates on his law day and night. That person is like a tree planted by streams of water, which yields its fruit in season and whose leaf does not wither—whatever they do prospers.” (Psalm 1:1-3) (NIV)