The Audio Version of “If the Tree Could Speak”

Hello Friends,

For today’s post, I simply want to remind of the book I read Easter evening. I told you about it a few weeks ago, but I want to share it with you again because now you can listen to it and view some of the pages on your own. By clicking on following link, it will take you to an audio version of the book. I hope you enjoy it!

Link to book: https://youtu.be/HeoQ2jmQ8ck

The title of the book is If the Tree Could Speak: The Story of the Cross that Saw It All. It was written by Tim Tebow. Tebow is a speaker, entrepreneur, college football analyst for ESPN and SEC Networks, and author of five New York Times bestsellers.[1] Prior to his current endeavors, Tebow was an NFL quarterback, a two-time NCAAF national champion, a Heisman Trophy winner, and a College Football Hall of Fame inductee. He’s also the founder of the Tim Tebow Foundation, dedicated to bringing Faith, Hope, and Love to those needing a brighter day in their darkest hour of need. Since 2010, the foundation has served some of the world’s Most Vulnerable People—“the real MVps”—across more than one hundred countries through ministry focuses in Anti-Human Trafficking and Child Exploitation, Orphan Care and Prevention, Profound Medical Needs, and Special Needs.[2]

Tim Tebow’s book is 121 pages in length and is filled with beautiful and touching and moving pictures of Jesus’ remaining hours on earth, and authentically gives voice, through poetry, to the one thing that carried the weight of Jesus as Jesus carried the weight of the world: the cross. Tebow wrote in the introduction to his book: “The wooden cross—once a brutal instrument of public torture, humiliation, and execution for Rome’s worst criminals—was the closest thing to Jesus of Nazareth during His crucifixion approximately two thousand years ago. [The cross] carried His weight. It felt His blood. It heard His breath.”[3]

From the perspective of the cross, Tim Tebow’s ends his book with these words, “You see, for on my beams there was a price: not only a man’s death but a King’s sacrifice. He didn’t just die on one broken tree. The King came to defeat death, to set you free. And how ironic that I—the cross—once a symbol of pain, would now be a symbol of hope in Jesus’ name. What once brought fear now brings peace instead, for love poured out where His blood was shed. Through my wooden arms, the world can see the depth of God’s love for all humanity. So why should you trust or consider what I say? Because I was the closest thing to Jesus that day.”[1]

Your Friend, Holy Spirit!