Trees and Truth

Unlocked: Daily Devotions for Teens · May 18, 2025 · 5m

READ: GENESIS 2:9; 3:1-7, 22-24; DEUTERONOMY 21:22-23; 1 PETER 2:21-25 The American poet Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. once wrote, “In fact, there’s nothing that keeps its youth, so far as I know, but a tree and truth.” Truth is eternal, and the long life of trees gives them the appearance of eternality. Perhaps it is not surprising then, that our ultimate source of truth in this world, the Bible, contains the running theme of trees throughout its pages. In the beginning, God places two trees in the Garden of Eden with the first humans. One tree represents their faith and obedience to God, and it…