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Fruitful Vine & Olive Shoots

Psalm 128:3
Your wife will be like a fruitful vine within your house; your children will be like olive shoots around your table.

A Fruitful Vine, how many women today are seen as being a fruitful vine? How many women today would want to see themselves that way? How many women today find themselves within their house? Many are out earning a monetary check. It is a blessing of the Lord when a man has his wife within his home and if she is a fruitful vine. This fruitful vine refers to childbearing, having children spring forth and growing to maturity.

The olive tree reproduces by sending up shoots from its roots. If not trimmed they surround the trunk, just like the psalmist’s blessing of many children around your table. Olive trees were a symbol of blessing to the Israelites. When they saw the new olive shoots coming up around their olive trees, they knew they were blessed. (Deuteronomy 6:11; 8:8).

If allowed to grow, these shoots become new trees that also bear fruit. It is not unusual for an olive tree to live for hundreds of years. And if healthy, the olive tree will continue to produce fruit for hundreds of years. This is generational thinking, are we raising our children to impact only their lives or are we raising them with the generations to come in mind? Our children are eternal souls who will live forever. Mothering is an eternal career. It is not a waste of time. It lasts into eternity.

Mothering is a career and not an easy one at that. We must depend upon the wisdom of the Most High God to teach, train, and discipline them. Olive plants have to be cultivated or they will deteriorate and grow wild. Our children also have to be cultivated if they are going to grow up in wisdom and stature bearing the image of Christ.

Also, olive oil was used to fuel the Temple lamp stand(Menorah) and for anointing. The Olive tree tends to be used as a picture of Israel, in its function of giving light to the world; as in the two olive trees giving golden oil to the Menorah in the vision of Zechariah. We are to let our light shine before men that they may see our Father in heaven.

Psalm 128:4 Behold, thus shall the man be blessed who fears the LORD.

(this is an older post, re-written a bit and re-published)