“Take an airboat ride through the everglades”…bucket list #27…check.
I took a tour of the everglades and mangrove forests this week on an airboat. On the tour the boat captain stopped to let us get up close and personal to a mangrove tree (and an alligator, but thats a different post). As it turns out, mangrove trees are the only trees known to be able to grow out of salt water. The tree actually has the ability to separate the salt from the water. The mangrove does this through a sacrificial yellow leaf that collects the salt from the salt water and sends the newly unsalted water to the rest of the tree. This sacrificial leaf is then released from the tree for a new one to grow, collect salt and also be sacrificed. Wow…that will preach. Story sound familiar?
Isaiah 64:6 tells the same story in that we are all infected and impure with sin. When we display our righteous deeds, they are nothing but filthy rags. Like autumn leaves, we wither and fall, and our sins sweep us away like the wind. But hope comes in Hebrews 10:10 when it reminds us that we will be sanctified, forgiven, and made right through the sacrificial offering of the body of Jesus Christ once and for all. He absorbs the impurity of our sin and dies sacrificially so that we may live.
In Luke 19:40 it says that if we keep quiet in telling people about the Gospel that even the stones will cry out…or as it turns out…even the Mangrove Trees too.
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