I want to take a fresh
look at an old story. One we as Christians all know and many of us
take for granted, but it's immensely practical. We need to not forget
this, and use it as a metric to test ourselves every once in a while.
In the Garden of Eden
were two trees – the Tree of Life, and the Tree of the Knowledge of
Good and Evil. There's a shorter name for the second tree – the
Tree of Judgement. “I'll decide for myself what's good and what's
evil, thank you very much.”
If you think about it,
every action we take, every we word we say, ultimately traces back to
one of these two trees.
So which tree are we
climbing? Which tree are we feeding to others? Where'd we build our
treehouse? Let's pick our fruit (our actions and our words) from the
Tree of Life. Let's cut down and burn that other bugger, we want no
part of it.
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