Fruit

I recently bought some amazing peaches!   I can’t get enough of them.  I was thinking on those peach trees when I read this verse:

“He (the man who doesn’t walk in the counsel of the ungodly but delights in the law of the Lord) shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that brings forth its fruit in its season, whose leaf shall not wither, and whatever he does shall prosper.”  Psalm 1:3

The picture here is of a tree which has been transplanted to be beside a canal of water.  The tree has no work to do.  It’s job is to “be.”   It can’t create its own sap—it’s lifeblood.  It can’t provide water and nutrients—it just absorbs what’s provided for it.  It can’t grunt and grow fruit.  All of those things are a natural process built in by the Creator.  

God is saying when we abide in Him and delight in His Word, He’ll do the rest.  He transplants us at our new birth to be right beside the water (a picture of the Holy Spirit).  And then it’s the work of the Spirit to provide the water and nutrients we need  which creates life and fruit.  Did you catch that fruit is seasonal?   There’s a time for growing and maturing before fruit is produced.  You can’t make it happen any sooner.   He promises to take care of everything—water, sap, fruit, healthy leaves...LIFE!  Just be.   Just abide.   And let Him do the rest.  He’ll create beautiful fruit in your life—in due time—which will delight others.

**By the way...there may be heaps of “fertilizer” piled on our lives at times—but don’t despair!   It’s needed for good fruit!  😉