In Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, there is a tree: a sprawling, shade-bearing, 80-year-old American Elm. Tourists drive from miles around to see her. People pose for pictures beneath her, and there have even been posters made of her. Other trees grow larger, fuller - even greener. But not one is equally cherished. The city treasures the tree not because of her appearance, but her endurance.
You see, she endured the Oklahoma City bombing. In the midst of the destruction that day, no one expected that tree to survive. But then she began to bud. Sprouts pressed through, and green leaves pushed out. Life emerged even in the midst of death.
Beloved, if you are in Christ today, may you realize an awesome truth; you too will endure. You will survive, not because of anything you could do, but because of what Christ has already done in you. “The anointing which you have received from Him abides (and will abide) in you” (1 John 2:27). What then is left for us beloved, but to abide in Him?
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