The Cross: The Tree of Life
“To him who overcomes I will give to eat from the tree of life.”
REVELATION 2:7
Like Adam, we can choose to eat from either tree, but we cannot eat from
both. Adam sinned when he fell into the flesh and yielded to his
Self-life. He rejected the Tree of Life in favor of something that was
“good… pleasant… and desirable” (Genesis 3:6). The Cross does not look
like a Tree of Life at all. It is neither good, nor pleasant, nor
desirable. It looks like death. Perhaps this is why Adam did not eat
from it first.
But God’s End is not death, regardless of appearances: God’s End is Life
out of death, which is resurrection. To eat of the fruit of the Tree of
Life is to glory in the Cross of Jesus Christ and find Life out of
death. It is becoming popular to preach and teach about the Cross these
days, but how many are eating of its fruit? Can we really see the Cross
as the TREE OF LIFE, and are we eating its fruit? We will know a true
disciple of the Lord, not by words, but by fruit, and the Cross is the
Tree of Life from which this fruit comes.
Source: Embrace the Cross by Chip Brogden
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