The Planting of the Lord
By William M. Self, Sr.
You don’t have to be a Weeping Willow anymore
God wants to make you an Oak of Righteousness
Harps on a Willow Tree
It was a sad day when the Israelites were taken captive.
They were forced from their land to Babylon.
There they mourned their losses.
Psalms 137 says…
They hung their harps
on the Weeping Willow Tree.
The Weeping Willow branches always hang down.
There is no strength in them to be lifted up.
Many of us live life like the Weeping Willow.
We live by rivers of water that sustain us.
Yet, our branches hang down in sadness.
The Spirit of the Lord came upon
Jesus to change this image.
Jesus came to us with Good
News that
will transform the
poor and weak…
To mend the broken hearted and hopeless…
Setting you free from a life of sorrow.
As He puts His arms of comfort around you,
He will…
Crown you with beauty
as He washes
you from the ashes of your losses.
He will anoint you
with an oil of gladness
to replace your
mourning.
There is a garment He will offer you called
praise so you can take
off the spirit of heaviness.
God’s intention for you is not to be a Weeping Willow.
No matter what has happened in your life…
No matter what your losses are…
You are not destined to be a Weeping Willow.
God’s intentions for you is to make you an Oak Tree…
An “Oak of
Righteousness”.
He wants to set everything right in your life.
He wants to make you strong.
A person who can see His goodness and praise Him.
A tree of strength that displays His splendor.
You don’t have to be a Willow anymore.
Jesus gives you the right to be
an “Oak of
Righteousness”.
Scripture Reading
Isaiah
61:1-3 NIV
61 The
Spirit of the Sovereign Lord is on me,
because the
Lord has anointed me
to preach
good news to the poor.
He has sent
me to bind up the brokenhearted,
to proclaim
freedom for the captives
and release
from darkness for the prisoners,
2 to
proclaim the year of the Lord's favor
and the day
of vengeance of our God,
to comfort
all who mourn,
3 and
provide for those who grieve in Zion —
to bestow on
them a crown of beauty
instead of
ashes,
the oil of
gladness
instead of
mourning,
and a
garment of praise
instead of a
spirit of despair.
They will be
called oaks of righteousness,
a planting
of the Lord
for the
display of his splendor.
Psalm
137:1-4 AMP
1 BY THE
rivers of Babylon, there we [captives] sat down,
yes, we wept
when we [earnestly] remembered Zion
[the city of
our God imprinted on our hearts].
2 On the
willow trees in the midst of [Babylon] we hung our harps.
3 For there
they who led us captive required of us a song with words,
and our tormentors and they who wasted us
required of us mirth,
saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion.
4 How shall
we sing the Lord's song in a strange land?
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