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I love trees!
Actually, my wife and I both love trees.
There is a lot we as believers can learn from trees.
Aspen trees, for example, have a single root system.
This makes them strong and powerful, showing us that we are better together.
The Great Basin Bristlecone Pine is estimated to be 5,000 yrs old, nicknamed Methuselah, and teaches us the the harshest conditions can produced the most resilient life.
But I want to share briefly about the Mangrove Trees.
I was introduced to these trees a couple years ago on a missions trip to Panama.
These guys are remarkable!
Not only are they an important part of the ecosystem, but they provide protection again major storms, provide wood for furniture, create land mass and can live in salt and fresh water.
There are so many spiritual lessons we can learn from these amazing Mangrove trees, but I want to focus on their ability to live in both fresh and salt water.
They do this through their root system which desalinates the water, up to 90%, and pushes it to leaves called “sacrificial leaves.”
These leaves absorb all the salt so the rest of the tree can receive the fresh water.
(This isn’t going to be a science class, trust me.)
Mangroves are the only trees that can do this and they are mostly found close to or on the border between fresh and salt.
Now think about this for a second.
A tree planted where it shouldn’t be.
Leaves that absorb what causes death so that the rest can live.
We, the church, are planted somewhere that we shouldn’t be.
We shouldn’t exist here.
This world should kills us.
BUT GOD! Jesus comes as one of us and absorbs death so that we can experience life!
The sacrificial leaf, the Sacrificial Lamb!
And because of that sacrifice we can grow deep roots and strong so that we can stand against the storms life throws at us!
We have the privilege, today, to welcome people and introduce them to the One who took away deaths sting.
Today we get to do this so others can find transformation through Jesus.
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