Overflowing Love

I once read a book about a person who owned a small garden. He enjoyed going out to his garden to water his trees and take care of them day and night. Then one day, one of his trees started to lose its vitality and began to wither away. He took great pains on this issue for days and then paid a visit to his coworker, who was an expert on trees, and asked him to watch his tree. After his coworker's careful observation of this tree, he said, "It wasn't the sterile soil or disease that caused the tree's sickness. It was because you did not water it enough. Even though you gave it water day and night, because you gave it too little, your tree got dehydrated and that's waht's causing its death."

If you don't water a tree enough, it gets sick. For big trees, you need to water them enough for water to soak to the root. Watering their leaves in not enough. You need to drench them in order for them to grow well.

This applies not only to trees, but to people. As we grow in our faith, we need to water and nourish our souls to the depths of our being. Little feeding leads to little growth, while greater feasting on His Word leads to stronger roots.