Job 14:7-9

For there is hope for a tree, when it is cut down, that it will sprout again, and its shoots will not fail. “Though its roots grow old in the ground and its stump dies in the dry soil, at the scent of water it will flourish and put forth sprigs like a plant.

What keeps a tree upright?  The roots are what go down deep into the soil.  A tree starts out as a seed with a single root and then it expands until the roots underground are as large as the tree canopy.  We are like a tree.  We need to grow roots so deep and so vast that if anything tries to cut us down, we sprout right back up.  Some days we need to be refreshed with the water of the Word of God.  We need to water ourselves, so our hope will spring forth just like the sprigs of a plant.