If we externalize all that is wrong with the world, we will believe the solution is inside of us. Try harder. Work smarter. Be better. Do the work. Pick yourself up by the bootstraps. But when we realize the problem is in us—all of us—we realize the solution must be outside of us. We need someone to come and save us. When we personalize sin, we realize we no longer need to hide behind the trees but to embrace the Man who hung on the cursed tree in our place.
