We welcome you now to a true church perspective with Pastor G. Craig Lewis.

Did you know that a tree has to grow in two directions at the same time?

Did you know that?

A tree has to grow in two always it's always growing in two directions

at the same time it's growing down and it's growing up

and what's interesting if you could see the part of the tree that's under the ground

it looks very similar to the part of the tree that's above the ground

the root system is very similar to the fruit system. That's crazy.

I never thought about that.

See what's happening.

Right, exactly.

Look what's happening to your face right now.

I see the millions of the trees.

Right.

And so, and so something as common as a tree, but watch this.

Here's what interesting about a tree.

The nature of a tree is that it is both gravotropic and phototropic. Now you've

never probably heard, maybe, have you ever heard of the word gravotropic before? Phototropic?

Never. Okay. So gravotropic means it grows away from light and towards gravity. That's the root system. It's gravotropic in nature.

So the seed goes in the ground and then the tree starts growing down before it starts growing up. Now here's what's interesting. When the seed is under the ground, it's dark under the ground, it's damp and it has resistance. The root system has resistance. It has to push through the dirt to go down further

right well the part once it breaks through the earth growing up there's no more resistance

and the part of the tree that's above the earth grows towards light and away from gravity

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