Friday, June 8, 2018

God's Unfailing Love

Psalm 52:8 "But I am like an olive tree flourishing in the house of God; I trust in God's unfailing love forever and ever."

Since I have always wondered what an olive tree looks like. Thankful for Google (everyone's go-to-right?) the photo above is an actual olive tree. I requested permission from the photographer to use this photo.  An olive tree in the Bible is a symbol of abundance, the roots run deep and will continue to bear fruit in its old age.  For more information on olive trees, I also searched through a wonderful resource called Bible Gateway.com https://www.biblegateway.com/   here is a exerpt from their site:
Olive-tree
is frequently mentioned in Scripture. The dove from the ark brought an olive-branch to Noah (Gen. 8:11). It is mentioned among the most notable trees of Palestine, where it was cultivated long before the time of the Hebrews (Deut. 6:11; 8:8). It is mentioned in the first Old Testament parable, that of Jotham (Judg. 9:9), and is named among the blessings of the "good land," and is at the present day the one characteristic tree of Palestine. The oldest olive-trees in the country are those which are enclosed in the Garden of Gethsemane. It is referred to as an emblem of prosperity and beauty and religious privilege (Ps. 52:8; Jer. 11:16; Hos. 14:6). The two "witnesses" mentioned in Rev. 11:4 are spoken of as "two olive trees standing before the God of the earth." (Comp. Zech. 4:3, 11-14.)
The "olive-tree, wild by nature" (Rom. 11:24), is the shoot or cutting of the good olive-tree which, left ungrafted, grows up to be a "wild olive." In Rom. 11:17 Paul refers to the practice of grafting shoots of the wild olive into a "good" olive which has become unfruitful. By such a process the sap of the good olive, by pervading the branch which is "graffed in," makes it a good branch, bearing good olives. Thus the Gentiles, being a "wild olive," but now "graffed in," yield fruit, but only through the sap of the tree into which they have been graffed. This is a process "contrary to nature" (11:24).
  
 Just like the olive tree, God's unfailing love for us is abundant, His love for us runs deep. In my grief, it helps to rest in God's unfailing love.
May you rest in God's unfailing love today.
Patty




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