Trees

I've been thinking a lot lately about the significance of Trees in God's Word. My first revelation (in the words of Mac Powell) directed me to the passage in Psalms 1 that speaks of us as Godly people being trees planted by streams of water, yielding fruit and prospering. How often, however, are we moreso like the tree that crucified our Savior? In other words, how much more often are we inflicting pain and even killing our Lord, than are we being content to wait on God and be planted in His Word? In my own life I have been much more like a tree of crucifixion, even more like the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, causing others to stumble and being a stumbling block to my Christian friends. I have been much more eager to point out the splinter in another's eye, than to evaluate the plank in my own.
I desire to be a tree deeply rooted; unmovable with yearning for Christ and His Kingdom. I want to one day eat from the tree of life in Revelatinon 2:7 and I want to be the voice granting every ear the ability to hear of God's grace, like the passage says. Obviously, I could go much deeper and much farther with a list of metaphors like this, but the point I hope to drive home, is that we can choose what type of life we want to lead, or what tree we decide to be. Let us focus on God first and being deeply rooted in Him, seeking to lead others to His Tree of Life.