As I walked past, he was picking up fallen branches and sticks and had an armload of them. I was thinking how beautiful the trees were with their brilliant fall colors. To my surprise, he told me the trees were dead. He explained that beetles had bored into them and killed them.
This reminded me that small things have a big impact, for good or bad. Ideas may seem like small things, but “ideas have consequences, and bad ideas have victims.” I heard that on Breakpoint, a podcast from the Colson Center, and it is so true! It is important to evaluate ideas and follow them to their conclusion.
Our idea of the value of life is one example. If we recognize that each life is inherently valuable from conception to natural death, we will want to protect it and allow it to flourish. If we think some lives are more valuable than others, that leads in an entirely different direction, one that allows some lives to be destroyed.
I’m glad we can analyze our ideas and that we can change. It may take courage to admit when we’re wrong, but it is also very rewarding to turn around and go in the right direction.
“Doesn’t wisdom call out? Doesn’t understanding make her voice heard?”
(Proverbs 8:1)
Ideas have consequences, and bad ideas have victims. (From the Colson Center)
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