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I was driving around in my patrol car today and for some reason a dead tree outside one of the area’s favorite diners caught my eye. It was an Ash tree, and it was killed by the recent infestation of the Emerald Ash Borer. Ann Arbor likes to be known as “Tree Town”. Well after the Emerald Ash Borer hit it could be called “Dead Tree Town.” There are thousands of dead Ash trees everywhere, and thousands more have been ground into wood chips. All these were killed by a little green beetle that burrows under the bark, and can’t be seen by casual inspection!
Then I immediately thought of the sin in our lives, on how it is not visible to the naked eye, yet it is fatal too. A tree or a person may look healthy on the outside, but underneath beetles and sin are eating them away.
There is no present cure for the Emerald Ash Borer, but there is a cure for the sin that eats at us. His name is Jesus!
