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“If the tree fall toward the south, or toward the north, in the place where the tree falleth, there it shall be” (Ecclesiastes 11:3).
We live in a wooded area, and today we are having some big trees taken down on our property, because they are beginning to crowd out the sun. Of course the men doing the work are cutting up the wood and taking it away, but in the forest, when a tree falls over, it stays wherever it happens to fall. Then, over a period of time, it will gradually decay and rot. But why does God remind us of this in His Word?
God is showing us that the way we live our lives will determine where we will spend eternity. If we know the Lord Jesus Christ as our Savior, we will spend eternity with Him. Sadly, those who do not know the Lord Jesus will have to suffer God’s judgment for all eternity. But after we have died, there will be no chance to change our destiny. An old poem expresses it well—
As the tree falls, so shall it lie,
As a man lives, so shall he die,
As a man dies, so shall he be,
All through the ages of eternity.
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