FROM DRYNESS TO FRESHNESS

“They shall still bear fruit in old age; they shall be FRESH and FLOURISHING” – Psalm 92:14

The Righteous is divinely transformed FROM DRYNESS to FRESHNESS: “The righteous shall FLOURISH like a PALM TREE, He shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon. Those who are planted in the house of the LORD shall FLOURISH in the courts of our God. They shall still bear fruit in old age; they shall be FRESH and FLOURISHING, to declare that the Lord is upright” (Psa.92:12-14). God ordained us to flourish and not be famished; and to bloom and blossom and not be barren.

The righteous will be like a palm tree – distinct, fertile, royal, stately, upright, diversely useful, consistently fruitful, long-living, and able to flourish in adverse and diverse conditions! The Cedar depicts a life that is immovable by storms, deeply rooted in the Grace of God. Troubles may come, but the Cedar is never uprooted or removed.

There is no Dryness – spiritual, physical, mental, or financial – in God’s package for His people. “He changes a wilderness into a pool of water and a DRY LAND into springs of water” (Psa.107:35). He wants us to bloom, blossom, and be fresh and flourishing: “The Lord will guide you continually, and satisfy your soul in drought, and strengthen your bones; you shall be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters do not fail” (Isa.58:11). These speak of: continual guidance, satisfaction in drought, lasting freshness, and a well-nourished life. When we are watered by God, we are a fruitful source of blessings to others as well. The plants never go dry in a well-watered garden. Here are few related scriptural promises:

“Then I will give you RAIN in its season, the land shall YIELD its produce, and the trees of the field shall YIELD their FRUIT” (Lev.26:4). The seasons of our lives shall not lack their due rains; the lands of our lives – education, marriage, children, family, career, and ministry – shall be productive and profitable.

“I will give you the RAIN for your land in its season, the early rain and the latter rain, that you may gather in your grain, your new wine, and your oil (Deut.11:14). God’s blessings are comprehensive over all aspects of life. The early and latter rains assure bountiful harvests, the guarantee of grain (provisions), new wine (satisfaction and sweetness), and oil (freshness).

“The LORD will open to you His good treasure, the heavens, to give the rain to your land in its season, and to bless all the work of your hand… (Deut.28:12a). God OPENS to us “His good treasure, the heavens,” to release rains of blessings on the work of our hands, not troubles to flood our lives.

“Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord, and whose hope is the Lord. For he shall be like a TREE planted by the waters, which spreads out its roots by the river, and will not fear when heat comes; but its leaf will be green, and will not be anxious in the year of drought, nor will cease from yielding fruit” (Jer. 17:7-8). Freshness belongs to those who put their trust in the Lord rather than in mortal men.

“He shall be LIKE A TREE planted by the rivers of water, that brings forth its fruit in its season, whose leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he does shall prosper (Psa. 1:3). This is the portion of the Believer, Lover, and Doer of God’s Word!

“I am LIKE A green olive TREE in the house of God” (Psa. 52:8). This should be our testimony as Believers in Christ Jesus!

“I will plant in the wilderness the cedar, the shittah TREE, and the myrtle, and the oil TREE; I will set in the desert the fir TREE, and the pine, and the box TREE together: (Isa. 41:19).

“‘For I will pour out water on the thirsty land and streams on the dry ground; I will pour out My Spirit on your offspring
and My blessing on your descendants” (Isa.44:3)

God will plant and establish us like fresh, flourishing, and formidable trees in our ordained positions and places in destiny.