I learned last night from a Netflix documentary that human's love for flowers is not only based on its beautiful colors. Flowers are often indicators where fruits can be found too.
Fruits are numerously used in the Bible to point a lot of truths. Mostly they are used to give us a picture of what our lives produce. The fruit, of course, depends on what is being toiled in our lives.
In Amos 8, God showed the prophet a basket full of ripe fruits. All of Israel's shameless idolatry has ripened, ready for God's punishment.
While we can lively doing whatever we want to do, its consequences may not be haste. However, it is for certain that it will come to fruition.
People can live sinful lives and still have 'flowers' —still have money, have sweet and interesting things in their life look good in the present.
Time, as intelligently designed by God, can only tell if these fruits lead to blessing or punishment.
Flowers become fruits. These fruits can only be RIPE in two ways:
Ripe and rotten, with no use but be thrown.
Ripe and ready, to be used for a tasty salad or enjoyed on it own, you count the ways it will be useful.
The second is what happens to a life that is lived with faithfulness. All one ever needs to do is wait patiently and whatever is asked, whatever seems missing, will be given.
The greater blessing is a harvest of influence over people's lives because ours was faithfully and fruitfully used to serve others.
What if the life we have lived seems to be good for nothing?
Rotten things when planted back into the ground can have a fresh new start.
While nothing about soil seems fresh and new, the process that comes through humiliation, pain, frustration, and downfall can lead to a surrender.
Repentance can take place. And when there is a heart that is ready turn away from the ways of the past, God's own heart is moved.
There will be much rejoicing in heaven.
The good news is there is still time to go back to God. We aren't sure though how much is left. The final day (that can be read in Revelation 8) where the whole humanity's fruit will be judged is coming. The day of repentance must be now.
Come back to God.
Make the choice to live a life that bears His love.
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