A Forest Parable
Two friends, two mossy logs, an open Bible — and the forest telling God’s great story.
“Were not our hearts burning within us while he talked with us on the road and opened the Scriptures to us?”
Luke 24:32
“Before Abraham was, I am.”
John 8:58
“Here I am! I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in.”
Revelation 3:20
“Fool! This night your soul is required of you.”
Luke 12:20
“Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.”
Matthew 11:28
“The words of the Amen, the faithful and true witness.”
Revelation 3:14
“Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth.”
Colossians 3:2 (ESV)
“Come, everyone who thirsts, come to the waters; and he who has no money, come, buy and eat without price.”
Isaiah 55:1 (ESV)
“You have been grafted in among them and have come to share in the rich root of the olive tree.”
Romans 11:17 (ESV)
“Let us not give up meeting together… but let us encourage one another.”
Hebrews 10:25 (ESV)
“Though you have not seen him, you love him. Though you do not now see him, you believe in him and rejoice.”
1 Peter 1:8 (ESV)
“The true light, which gives light to everyone, was coming into the world.”
John 1:9 (ESV)
“Love is patient and kind… it does not insist on its own way… Love never ends.”
1 Corinthians 13:4–8 (ESV)
“Though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow.”
Isaiah 1:18 (ESV)
“I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go; I will counsel you with my eye upon you.”
Psalm 32:8 (ESV)
“He is like a tree planted by water, that sends out its roots by the stream, and does not fear when heat comes.”
Jeremiah 17:8 (ESV)
“I have set before you life and death, blessing and curse. Therefore choose life.”
Deuteronomy 30:19 (ESV)
“Come to me, all who labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.”
Matthew 11:28 (ESV)
“For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face.”
1 Corinthians 13:12 (ESV)
“Above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it.”
Proverbs 4:23 (ESV)
“For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, declares the Lord.”
Isaiah 55:8 (ESV)
“Love never fails.”
1 Corinthians 13:8 (ESV)
“Stand by the roads, and look, and ask for the ancient paths, where the good way is; and walk in it, and find rest for your souls.”
Jeremiah 6:16 (ESV)
“Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.”
Matthew 11:28 (ESV)
“Whoever believes in me, as the Scripture has said, ‘Out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.’”
John 7:38 (ESV)
“Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.”
Hebrews 13:2 (ESV)
“When Jesus had received the sour wine, he said, ‘It is finished,’ and he bowed his head and gave up his spirit.”
John 19:30 (ESV)
“For this reason I bow my knees before the Father, from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named.”
Ephesians 3:14-15 (ESV)
“For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.”
Isaiah 55:9 (ESV)
“Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.”
2 Corinthians 5:17 (ESV)
“Until heaven and earth pass away, not an iota, not a dot, will pass from the Law until all is accomplished.”
Matthew 5:18 (ESV)