Whilst we were walking through the woods at the state park a couple of weeks ago, My Sweet Babboo mentioned a tree that he'd seen along our usual walking route on the greenway that runs beside the creek in our neck of the woods.
Today, when we were walking, he pointed it out to me.
I had to take a photo. That'll preach, I said.
I don't know if the trees grew close together or if one blew over against the other, but vines have tangled up a live tree with what is now a remnant of a dead, decaying trunk of another tree.
That's a powerful image, right there.
How many of us have a dead, decaying thing bound up in our lives somewhere? Something that is hindering our growth, contributing to ill health (mental, physical or spiritual), weighing us down?
And how many of us have hacked away at that thing but are no closer to being free of it?
It's the vines. We can't just get rid of the thing itself. Ya gotta get rid of the vines.
Those habits that keep us bound up in dysfunction. Those relationships that pull us away from our relationship with God. Those little pleasures that distract us from our calling. The things that, in and of themselves, don't seem such a big deal.
But they are keeping us bound to dead stuff.
Therefore,...let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles.... (Heb. 12:1)
Yeah, that'll preach.
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