FROM DEVOZINE MAGAZINE: 8-12 FRIENDS

GOOD SPORTS (FRIENDS) BY Douglas Raymond Rose as printed in DEVOZINE Teen Magazine published by Upper Room Two-faced people are the most challenging to love. I have had friends who seemed to change from day to day--sometimes interested in friendship and other times not so much. Finally, I turned it all over to the Lord. I realized that sometimes we expect more from human friends than they are able to give. I've found more faithful friends, who have renewed my faith in God and in true Friend

ship. Only as we love our Father God can we faithfully love one another.

FROM CREATION MAGAZINE ,Summer, 2012

TREES OF RIGHTEOUSNESS by Douglas Rose Even a cursory glance at a Biblical glossary clearly reveals that the Creator of the universe places great importance upon trees of many different kinds, roughly 23 species can be found in Scripture. In one instance, Isaiah 61:3 says:" The garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they may be called Trees of Righteousness, the planting of the Lord, that He may be glorified." As I research this colorful tree theme in scripture, I see many comparisons in the men and women of the Bible to the growing of trees. Psal

m 1:3 says people of God will be 'like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that brings forth its fruit in its season, whose leaf also shall not wither, and whatever he does shall prosper. Wow! What a promise to those interested in being Trees of Righteousness!