This is a very important point; How do I know God was in my Tree Incident? I tell you I thought a lot about that very question for many days after I harvested the tree. I wondered if something else was at work in this event. Maybe Satan? Maybe Mother Nature? Maybe some “Spirit” contained within the tree itself? Yes, and I even thought about aliens from some other planet. But after weeks of internet searches, looking at strange stuff on YouTube, and other junk stuff I settled on going to and using my 1599 Geneva Bible as my main reference source.
I knew that the Bible had lots of stories in it that were strange. When you read about Moses and a burning bush that is not consumed, or the ten plaques against the Egyptian Pharaohs, or the parting of the Red Sea you know you are reading some strange stuff. And to top it off, the Bible is the main religious source everybody has used since ancient times to understand who God is. Those people were much more dependent upon a God to help them live than we are today. They recorded everything they knew about the spiritual world and their part in it. Now at the time I knew nothing of the actual history of the Bible but I knew enough to not ignore it as a source for trying to figure out how that Tree did what it did.
If that reasoning isn’t enough for you who read this blog consider this; When I put my hand on the tree and started asking for God’s help, what name did I invoke? Do you remember? I said: Jesus, I don’t know if your Bible is true or not. . . I invoked the name of Jesus. I addressed Him by Name.
What else was answered within that prayer? Did I not get my answer in two separate ways? First the tree moved and in that one act, both guestions were answered. Yes, said the action of my tree, Jesus is true and yes, said the action of the tree, the Bible is also true.
This was so hard for me to accept. I tried everything I could think of to avoid acceptance of this outcome. That both Jesus is true and the Bible is true. Again, I knew that I was heading towards being a Bible thumper. I, at the time did not want this change in my life. I fought it off for as long as I could. But over the next two years of research, winding up with my full immersion Baptism, I came to believe the obvious. And I have become a Bible thumper, not a good one, but definitely I am out sharing the word with all, even those who will not listen.
Of course I have received many blessings from my research and, whenever I got off tract with my studies or if I began to speak untruths as I tried to understand my Bible God would ding me in some small way to discipline me back to the right information. Literally God would cause me to stumble until I got back on tract. I will tell you more about that later. Those dings taught me more about God than did the stuff I researched. I have some strange information to share about this too when the time is right.
For now, you should trust and have faith that I am not lying to you in any way. I am speaking the truth and doing so in all righteousness. That Tree brought me to my knees and to my LORD. I hope I can, with the help of my Tree, bring you to the Lord as well.
L.
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