Oaks of Righteousness

 

So they will be called oaks of righteousness, the planting of the LORD. Isaiah61:3

I remember driving down Highway 90 in Gulfport, Mississippi about 8 months after Hurricane Katrina ravaged the area. Evidence of the storm’s severity was still all around.

I remember seeing only the foundations of houses—steps that used to lead up to beautiful beach homes now led to nothing. It looked very much like a warzone.

And then there were the oaks. Huge, centuries-old oak trees still stood firm all along the coastline. They were a bit battered and were missing some leaves, but they appeared to be relatively unscathed from the wrath and fury that Katrina had thrown at them.

It was an amazing sight.

And a humbling one. It made me think about this verse from Isaiah. God promised that his people would be called oaks of righteousness, and the planting of the Lord.

Those words took on a whole new meaning for me as I drove down the Mississippi Gulf coast. The oaks had stood firm in the storm. They hadn’t wavered. What man built had been blown away buy the winds and washed away by the Gulf, but what God planted stood strong.

That’s what God is making you and me into. He’s forming us into mighty oaks of righteousness that are not broken or washed away when the storms of life and the temptations of sin can raging against us. Our righteousness is planted by God. We will not falter.

Father, thank you for making us unshakable, immovable examples of your righteousness. In Jesus’ name . . . .

 

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