Can a Cut-Down Tree Sprout Again?
SAPOS iumi markem wanfala olive tree wea luk old and bend olobaot witim wanfala cedar tree long Lebanon wea barava luk naes, maet iumi ting datfala olive tree hem no spesol nomoa. Nomata olsem, olketa olive tree savve grow long olketa ples wea olketa nara tree no savve grow gud long hem. Samfala olive tree laef for samting olsem 1,000 year finis. Olketa rut bilong olive tree hem strong and savve go deep insaed long graon. Nomata olketa katem daon wanfala olive tree, bat hem savve grow bak moa. Sapos olketa rut bilong hem laef yet, bae datfala tree hem grow bak moa.
Faithful man Job hem savve sapos hem dae, hem bae laef bak moa. (Job 14:13-15) Hem iusim example bilong wanfala tree, maet olive tree, for showimaot hem sure God bae mekem hem laef bak. Job sei: “Nomata tree tu hem garem hope. Sapos olketa katem daon, hem savve grow bak moa.” Taem hem rain bihaen hem drae fogud, wanfala olive tree wea olketa katem daon savve grow moa and garem “olketa niu branch olsem wanfala young plant.”—Job 14:7-9.
Wanfala farmer hem laekem tumas for lukim wanfala olive tree wea olketa katem daon for grow moa. Olsem tu, Jehovah God hem laekem tumas for mekem olketa wea worshipim hem, and staka narawan wea dae finis, for laef bak. (Matt. 22:31, 32; John 5:28, 29; Acts 24:15) Tingim hao iumi bae barava hapi taem iumi lukim olketa wea dae olketa laef bak moa!