Olive tree
Olive oil is an expensive oil used for so many things. Cooking, healing, anointing, burning lamp lights and softening the skin. But to get to this purest point the olive has to go through terrible hardships. Just like the olive tree we receive blow by blow of harsh winds and also much needed life giving moist winds. For the olive to be ready for harvest the tree needs plenty of rain. Soaking living water that can move up through the roots into the fruit. Like we need the living water from Abba so that we can produce fruit healthy enough. But the fruit is still hard and bitter. Just like our hearts. It has to go through a process of being cleaned, washed, salted, cured to get rid of all the bitterness and to soften the fruit. Just like we have to go through a cleansing process before we can be useful in Abbas army. But to reach the point of pure expensive oil, the olive has to go through the olive press. Here it gets separated from all the dirt and tough outer peels. It gets crushe...