Like palm tree and cedar

Have you ever wondered what it's really like to be righteous? To be righteous is to have right standing before God through Jesus Christ and what He did for us on the cross. But what does it really mean in your and my everyday life?
Psalm 92:13 gives us an answer, and I want to explore that answer today.
"The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree: he shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon" (Psalm 92:13).
First it says that the righteous shall flourish. What does it mean to flourish? My dictionary says it means to be successful, widespread, prosper, grow healthily, be well and active, be very active and influential.
Wow! That sounds good. But it says more. It not only says the righteous shall flourish, but that the righteous shall flourish like the palm tre and grow like a cedar in Lebanon.
If someone says to me that I shall have success like "John Brown", I would try to figure out what "John Brown" does or did that made him a success. And when the Bible says that I shall flourish like the palm tree and like a cedar, I want to find out what that really means. What is it about the palm tree and the cedar that make them flourish?
My source of information about this is Dake's Annotated Reference Bible. And it says on page 1046 about Psalm 92:13:

The fruit of the palm provides a great part of the diet of the East. The stones are ground down for the camels; the leaves are made into baskets; the hard boughs or the strong leaves, 6 to 7 ft. in length, are used to make fences; the juice makes arrack, a very strong Oriental liquor; the threads of the leaves make ropes; and the wood makes building material or firewood.

Another WOW!

And the cedar?

The cedars of Lebanon are extremely long-lived. Some are supposed to be as old as 1,000 years. They grow 80 to 100 ft. tall and 40 ft. around the trunk. They express the ideas of majesty, durability, incorruptibility, and stability.

Are you righteous? If you've accepted Jesus Christ into your life and been born again, you are. And all the good characteristics listed above are yours. Don't settle for less! Jesus died for you and paid the price for you so you could have everything of the above.

Don't settle for less!