I don’t know how much stock you put in dreams, so I’m going to tell you about my dream and you can make of it what you will. I planted a pin oak tree in my back yard about 25 years ago. It was about 8 feet tall when I planted it, now it’s a beautiful tree at least 60 feet tall. When I look at it, I always think of 1 Corinthians 3:7: “So neither he who plants nor he who waters is anything, but only God who gives the growth.” I dreamed last night that I was in my back yard looking at this tree. Something didn’t look right about it, so I walked up to the base of the tree and looked up at the trunk. From that vantage point, it looked like the trunk suddenly narrowed part way up the tree. I couldn’t see what was causing this, so I climbed up the tree to get a closer look. Roughly 20 feet up, I found that half the trunk was missing for 15-20 feet above that. It was like someone had taken a chain saw, cut halfway through the trunk, then went straight up with the cut and then back out. So when I say half the trunk was missing for 15-20 feet, that’s what I mean. But the missing part hadn’t been cut out, it was actually rotted away. I couldn’t believe the tree was still standing. I started crying & I remember thinking over and over “who’s going to fix my tree?” That’s the last thing I remember before I woke up.
When I woke up, I realized the tree was my life, and the part that was missing had rotted away because of sin. Don’t ask me how I knew that, but I did. I laid there in bed asking myself the question from my dream: “who’s going to fix my tree (i.e. my life)?” I thought about it for 15 minutes and I had no answer. It was a very unpleasant feeling. Then the answer came to me, and of course I should have known it all along: “With man it is impossible, but not with God. For all things are possible with God.” (Mark 10:27) The only one who can fix my tree is God. He made it possible through the death, burial, and resurrection of his only son, Jesus Christ, and it is through faith in him that my tree (my life) is healed & made whole again. As we read in 1 Peter 2:24: “He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. By his wounds you have been healed.”
