Not Broken

Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado

The age old philosophical question is, if a tree falls in the forest and there's no one to hear it does it make a sound? A scientist might say, "stupid question." A pragmatist might say, "who cares?" A therapist might say, "it's not the sound that's important but the fact that a tree has fallen."

Those of you who know me probably aren't surprised that I fall into the last category. Of course it's important if a tree falls in the forest, and it's not a stupid question. To make the sound a tree had to be broken.

Given enough time all of these trees will fall. Age and gravity guarantee it.

We're all broken trees. We all are captivated by sin.

"Because all people have sinned, they have fallen short of God's glory. They receive God's approval freely by an act of his kindness through the price Christ Jesus paid to set us free from sin." Romans 3:23-24 God's Word to the Nations

Thank God that the end of our story is not that we have been broken by sin. The end of the story is that God raises us up and causes us to stand through that tree that stands for all eternity; the cross of Jesus. His condemnation to death is our sentence of life.

We will never fall to eternal death and decay. Through their adoption into Christ, "trees" don't fall, they live now and for eternity.

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