God’s Tree

A tree is but a manifestation of a seed’s potential to derive sustenance from earth and water, and produce one of the most beautiful sights in the world in the form of a trunk, branches, leaves and flowers.

Man is much the same as a tree. He has been put on earth like a seed. But he can only grow into a tree by virtue of his own efforts. Providence, however, has granted him innumerable sources of nourishment, and opportunities exist on earth for man to build an eternal future for himself. His efforts on earth will have the reward of the verdant gardens of paradise in the next world. He will dwell there in eternal contentment.

But those who do not partake of this divine sustenance are like seeds, which are cast on to a rock or on barren land. Such seeds will never grow into trees. One who does not make use of the opportunities for growth in this world is like a defective seed, which never grows into a tree. Such a person will meet with eternal failure. The world that he will inherit in the next life will be a total desert.

A heavenly soul is like a fine tree, which grows in this world and is then transplanted in God’s evergreen garden in the after-life.