Bear Much Fruit

A fruitful tree is pleasurable because it yields something that we all need and enjoy.

When we see an apple tree filled with apples we stop and look with that happy feeling, right? For some reason its pulchritude is one of the most amazing things to behold. That's because the tree, in all its splendor, displays God's amazing beauty. Secondly, it makes us salivate to imagine eating the lovely fruit. Finally, there is just something graceful about observing things as they fulfill their purposes. Jesus cursed a fig tree once, causing it to wither away because He was hungry and it was barren. It had no fruit.

We are expected to bear fruit. Our lives must be counted for something more than our own ambitions. Like the fig tree, we must produce the things we were created to produce.

"But he who received seed on the good ground is he who hears the word and understands it, who indeed bears fruit and produces..." - Mat. 13:23

"But the fruit of the spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control..." - Gal. 5:22

A tree never eats its own fruit, its ALWAYS for somebody else's benefit! Whatever seeds you sow in yourself is the fruit others will see and eat from!

Be Blessed!