Victorious Beautiful Tree...

 

A man had a beautiful estate with magnificent trees on it. But he had

a bitter enemy, who said, "I will cut down one of his trees; that

will hurt him."

In the dark of night the enemy slipped over the fence and went to the

most beautiful of the trees, and with a saw and axes he began to work.

In the first light of morning he saw in the distance two men coming

over the hill on horseback, and recognized one of them as the

owner of the estate.

Hurriedly he pushed the wedges out and let the tree fall;

but one of the branches caught him and pinned him to the ground,

injuring him so badly that he died.

Before he died, he screeched out,

"Well, I have cut down your beautiful tree,"

And the estate owner looked at him with pity and said,

"This is the architect I have brought with me.

We had planned to build a house, and it was necessary to 

cut down one tree to make room for the house;

and it is the one you have been working on all night."

Do not forget that anything the devil is working at, he is but

cutting down a tree God had planned to cut down;

he never did anything outside the overall plan of God,

for God is omnipotent and omniscient and victorious.

Donald Grey Barnhouse

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