Redwoods can top out at 400 feet and live 2,000 years. But they’re saplings alongside a certain Great Basin bristlecone pine in California’s White Mountains. Dubbed “the oldest-known living tree in the world,” Methuselah is 4,851 years old.

If these old-timers could talk, they’d tell about discovering fire, inventing the wheel, generating electricity and countless other breakthroughs. Yet no Einstein equals the wisdom of the Creator who made those seedlings eons ago.

That Creator compared His kingdom to a tiny mustard seed that grows up to be a tree where birds make their home. That seed is the news that Jesus Christ, who spoke the universe into existence, proved His love for us by dying on a tree for us. And He offers us permanent refuge in the safety of His strong arms.

Upon whose reliable branches are you nesting?


”Not one sparrow … can fall to the ground without your Father knowing it. And the very hairs of your head are all numbered. So don’t worry! You are more valuable to him than many sparrows.”  Matthew 10:29-31