Choose Ye This Day...

…every time you make a choice you are turning the central part of you, the part of you that chooses, into something a little different from what it was before. And taking your life as a whole, with all your innumerable choices, all your life long you are slowly turning this central thing either into a heavenly creature or into a hellish creature: either into a creature that is in harmony with God, and with other creatures, and with itself, or else into one that is in a state of war and hatred with God, and with its fellow-creatures, and with itself. To be the one kind of creature is heaven: that is, it is joy and peace and knowledge and power. To be the other means madness, horror, idiocy, rage, impotence, and eternal loneliness. Each of us at each moment is progressing to the one state or the other. (C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity, pg. 87)

The tree is symbolic of the Love of God while it's fruit is the atonement. The tall and spacious building is representational of the vanity of the world. The rod of iron is the word of God. Though the people, the spacious building, and the distractions change throughout history, the path to eternal life stays unchanging forever. While the path towards vanity and pride may look bright, it is nothing in comparison to the tree of life. Many of the people who are clinging to the rod are also holding torches. The torches represent the Light of Christ that we can hold in our countenances. They make the path clear, and others can follow them toward the kingdom of our Heavenly Father. People of all races and nationalities gather around those with the lights.

Dream of the "Tree of Life."