22/05/2026
At my mum’s place the other day, I removed a half-dead Poinsettia. I had persevered with it over time, using wetta-soil to get water to its roots, and fertilizing it. But nothing changed. When I dug it out, it became apparent why it had been dying. Its roots were shallow. It was so easy to dig out.
Recently, my brother John and I dug out the stump of a large coral tree to make way for our new church playground. This was anything but easy. The tree, before it was cut down, was large and healthy, with a magnificent display of flowers in season, and with vibrant green leaves in summer. It took us half a day to get the stump out, as the roots went deep into the water table.
In Psalm 1:3 we are encouraged to be like a healthy tree deeply rooted into streams of water: “like a tree firmly planted by streams of water, which yields its fruit in season, and whose leaf does not wither.”
In life, what are the “streams of water” that we are to be deeply rooted in. Psalm 1 tells us it’s God’s Word. Jesus, God’s Son, said to come to Him by faith, so that we might receive “living water” that gives spiritual life and health. John 7:37-38 “If anyone is thirsty, let them come to Me and drink. Whoever believes in Me, as the Scriptures tells us, ‘from their innermost being shall flow rivers of living water’.”
Pastor Ian Kirk
