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Post date: Oct 19, 2010 8:43:38 PM

"Those that be planted in the house of the LORD shall flourish in the courts of our God. They shall still bring forth fruit in old age; they shall be fat and flourishing....” (Psa 92:13, 14).

The house of the Lord today is the local church. (1 Tim 3:15). Here God’s house is compared to a beautiful orchard of fruit-bearing trees. The wonderful promise is that those in this orchard will still be producing fruit in old age. Some of the choicest fruit of the saints is borne in old age. Old age is, for the saint, not a time to be dreaded, but a time to be looked for with anticipation.

But this promise of fruit-bearing is only to those who are “planted” in the house of the Lord. Here is where the Lord nourishes with the “... rivers of water....” (Psa 1:3).