The Olive Tree
IllustrationAnalogy★★★IT TAKES fifteen years for an olive plant to become an olive tree. In the garden of Gethsemane over in Israel, there are two- thousand-year-old olive trees that still produce olives. Their roots run deep. The Mount of Olives is a mountain covered with olive trees that have lived for centuries. When those trees were saplings, they were nurtured so that they have remained productive. Likewise the care and nurture of a child will yield the returns of a fruitful life.
The point
Ancient olive trees still bear fruit because they were carefully nurtured as saplings, just as a well-nurtured child yields a fruitful life.
Scripture
Psalm 128:3Proverbs 22:6
Audience
Adults
Tone
Encouraging · Inspiring
To tell aloud
under a minute · 81 words