God Grant Us a Revival of the Seed of Righteousness

Last week the noble sentry of our churchyard faced another storm as it had done for perhaps two hundred years. This time was its last gallant stand. Many saints in Heaven and on earth have communed with God in the shade beneath it’s bough. “Well done good and faithful servant.”

The Bible says that as a tree falls, so is it. The meaning is that the way we are living when that moment comes is the way we will fall, and there is no going back to change It. A most beautiful hymn reminds us that noble living is like a mighty oak:

“That cause can never be lost nor stayed
Which takes the course of what God has made;
And is not trusting in walls and towers,
But slowly growing from seeds to flowers.

Each noble service that men have wrought
Was first conceived as a fruitful thought;
Each worthy cause with a future glorious
By quietly growing becomes victorious.”

I miss so many of the pulpit giants and strong Christian leaders we have known.
They were not afraid to follow the Lord their mighty fortress and unfailing bulwark. They held us to the cause of the righteous life because our eternity depends upon it.

The giant oaks that stand tall and strong were first tiny seed in the ground. God grant us a revival of the seed of righteousness being born again in the hearts of the churches, nations and the people.

“Thereby itself like a tree it shows:
That high it reaches, as deep it grows;
And when the storms are its branches shaking,
It deeper root in the soil is taking.

Be then no more by a storm dismayed,
For by it the full grown seeds are laid;
And though the tree by its might it shatters,
What then, if thousands of seeds it scatters?”