Fruitfulness 1

Fruit is normally only available when it is in season. If there is a watermelon growing in South Carolina in February, it is because there is an artificial season being created in a hot house. Even in an artificial climate, the process must still be followed for the production of fruit. A plant must be planted. It must grow until it can produce flowers. The flowers must produce pollen, and the pollen must be moved from the flowers on one plant to the flowers on another plant.

Even when the fruit begins to grow, it needs to ripen. Exceptions exist, like some peoples’ preference for unripened peppers or tomatoes, and the commercial fruit industry, which picks fruit too green to eat and gasses it with methane to force some semblance of ripeness that will enable it to sell in a market.

We need to bear fruit. Our repentance needs to be fruitful (Matthew 3:8; Acts 26:19-20). Our ministries need to be fruitful (John 15:14-16). Much time is spent in the seasons of growing and flowering and waiting on bees before time can be spent bearing fruit. Do not stop along the way just because you are tired or tired of waiting (Luke 8:15). Be diligent. Be patient. Be steadfast. Be awesome!