jstefan posted on May 12, 2010 10:15
This time of the year the stark beauty of leafless trees and brown grass are transformed into the green that seems to engulf.
Not too many weeks ago when we had such deep snowstorms, a white pine tree had blocked the warming rays of the sun from melting the glare ice on our lane. I and my neighbor would often have trouble getting started from our driveways on the ice. This neighbor requested permission to cut the tree down and thin out the shady area across from our house. Permission was granted.
The farmer’s almanac predicted a late March blizzard, so I hurriedly cut the tree down. It would have been a perfect tree fall but it got caught in the crook of another tree as it fell. Tree-cutters often call these types of tree falls, “widow-makers.” It almost lived up to its reputation as a limb came whooshing by me!
I was amazed at the weight and size of all the debris left behind. Upon inspecting the trunk, which remained on a rise in the terrain, it was hard to comprehend that where the tree once stood there was no depression in the ground equal to the weight of the tree. It would seem to reason that for every pound of tree, there should be an equal pound of dirt consumed by the tree!? Where did the tremendous mass of tree come from? I would estimate that the tree weighed around 5-6000 pounds. That amount of dirt would fill a small dump truck!
I will have to ask our Creator this puzzling question on the day of Redemption. It is almost as though the tree was formed out of nothingness.
As promised, one of these days hopefully real soon, Jesus will invite us, those who have washed their robes-motivated to keep all God’s commandments in love, they will be told: “Blessed are you . . . that we may have right to the tree of life and may enter into the city by the gates.” Revelation 22:14.