Lessons from Crooked Trees

There used to be some very crooked Russian olive trees in our back yard. The annoying thing about them was that their trunks grew more sideways than upward. Some were so low to the ground that I could hardly mow under them. I tried trimming them, but that didn’t help. The only way to change a crooked tree is to rope and stake it for a very long time.

However, people are even harder to straighten out than crooked trees. We are born with a natural bent toward doing wrong. God may chop off a few branches from time to time (which hurts), but without the slow, long-term training of roping and staking, we won’t grow in the right direction.

The message for us is to persevere and hang in there for the long haul when we’re being corrected. We need to give God the time to get the job done right!

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