Focus On Watering the Trees – – Not the Grass

Literally, and in terms of preaching:

The neighbors are watering their grass.  I’m focusing on trees.

Grass is an inch deep.  The first sign of trouble, it will wither and turn brown.

But, trees that have developed root systems will survive long after I am not around to entertain them any longer.

Some of the grass gains a short term benefit from water around the tree.

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“ Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the wicked, nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of scoffers; but his delight is in the law of the Lord, and on his law he meditates day and night. He is like a tree planted by streams of water that yields its fruit in its season, and its leaf does not wither. In all that he does, he prospers. The wicked are not so, but are like chaff that the wind drives away. Therefore the wicked will not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous; for the Lord knows the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked will perish.(Ps 1).”

(Version 2.0 of this post).