“They shall take root downward and bear fruit upward” (II Kings xix. 30).
E have been speaking of the roots of the palm tree. Let us look now at its trunk. The first thing that strikes us is its stateliness, its uprightness. It seems to be ever reaching to the clouds and the heavens. Are our lives thus aspiring to God and reaching upward to meet Him, to know Him, to be like Him? The Greek word for man means “the one with his face turned upward.” How many lives are looking downward and groveling in the mire and with the muck rake of the world. Let our prayer be:
“Lord, lift me up and let me stand
By faith on heaven’s tableland,
A higher plane than I have found;
Lord plant my feet on higher ground.”