She held her head in her hands, weighted down with discouragement.
How does God‘s kingdom come to earth? How is the love, joy and peace Jesus exemplified deposited on earth? Our political and religious institutions are broken. We are broken. So how does anything good appear when God only finds our wounded hands to use?
Like a peach tree trying with all its might to find a way to create peaches and push them from the roots up the tree and out its leaves, I tried hard to propel joy and God‘s kingdom through my striving.
It wasn’t working
“How does a peach tree produce peaches?” I began to ponder
Peaches are born the moment the peach tree stretches down its roots and thinks, “I’d like a little more water.”
And then, with the drinking and thirst, the roots grow stronger and thicker. Ironically, the thirst of the little tree only increases the more it drinks. The little roots grow deeper and stockier, twisting around obstacles in their way but still moving down, down toward the Source.
And once that little tree drinks all the water that it is designed to drink, peaches come.
How thirsty are you?
But what happens when we live God’s way? He brings gifts into our lives, much the same way that fruit appears in an orchard—things like . . . exuberance about life . . .
This mug says, “Be Happy.”
But the more I tried to be happy, the more discouraged I became.
This unhealthy little peach tree produced eighty-six delicious peaches for our family’s delight last summer.
How much fruit will your tree produce?
As the song below plays, consider asking Holy Spirit to increase your thirst for spiritual things.
And may every good fruit be produced from your life, friend.
Photo Credit: Little Tree Growing by Sushobhan Badhai on Unsplash
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