The Second Best Time To Plant Trees

Most of you are aware, I am taking preaching sabbatical this month, so I will not be making the normal posts during July. However, I want to share some of my favorite blogs from other ministers or speakers occasionally during the month. Today's blog comes from Steve May from MondayMemo. Steve writes:


An ancient proverb says, "The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is today."

Looking back on the past twenty years, it's easy to see all the trees that should have been planted: we should have spent less and invested more, we should have studied more, prayed more, taken the kids to more picnics, appreciated others more, watched TV less, worried less, laughed more, enjoyed life more, and on and on.

It's easy to see today all the trees we failed to plant twenty years ago. And it may be tempting to dwell on those good things left undone. God, however, has forgotten them; those sins of omission have been cast into the same sea of forgetfulness as our other sins.

Instead, we must be about the business of planting trees today.

Paul said, "Indeed, God is ready to help you right now. Today is the day of salvation." (2 Corinthians 6:2)

Yesterday will never be any different than it was, but today's pages is still blank. Today is the day of salvation; today is the day to start planting trees.