Psalms 1:3

Psalms 1:3

The spiritual plant of God is placed by the running waters; it is nourished and recruited by the never-failing, the perpetual, the daily and hourly, supply of their wholesome influences. It grows up gradually, silently, without observation; and in proportion as it rises aloft, so do its roots, with still less observation, strike deep into the earth. Year after year it grows more and more into the hope and the posture of a glorious immobility and unchangeableness. What it has been, that it shall be; if it changes, it is as growing into fruitfulness, and maturing in its fruit's abundance and perfection. Nor is that fruit lost; it neither withers upon the branches nor decays upon the ground. Angels unseen gather crop after crop from the unwearied, never-failing parent, and carefully store them up in heavenly treasure-houses. The servant of God resembles a tree (1) in his graciousness; (2) in his fruitfulness; (3) in his immobility.

J. H. Newman, Sermons on Various Occasions,p. 243.

References: Psalms 1:3. H. P. Liddon, Old Testament Outlines,p. 100; Homiletic Magazine,vol. vii., p. 73; G. Matheson, Moments on the Mount,pp. 79, 122; G. Orme, Christian World Pulpit,vol. x., p. 334; E. Johnson, Ibid.,vol. xx., p. 347. Psalms 1:3; Psalms 1:4. H. Macmillan, Two Worlds are Ours,p. 203; A. Blomfield, Sermons in Town and Country,p. 313.Psalms 1:4. Spurgeon, Sermons,vol. v., No. 280.