Words Of Encouragement to Start The Day (Wednesday 08/17/2011)

Are You Shadey Or Fruity?

　

Matthew 21:18-20 Amplified Bible (AMP)

18In the early dawn the next morning, as He was coming back to the city, He was hungry. 19And as He saw one single leafy fig tree above the roadside, He went to it but He found nothing but leaves on it seeing that in the fig tree the fruit appears at the same time as the leaves]. And He said to it, Never again shall fruit grow on you! And the fig tree withered up at once. 20When the disciples saw it, they marveled greatly and asked, How is it that the fig tree has withered away all at once?

We live in Virginia, and they have a beautiful tree there called a Crape Mrytle, during the winter time, these trees are not much to look at, they are basically pretty void of anything that would express the potential beauty that they possess. We have about ten of these tress in the yard, one of these trees was not doing well in the spring when it should have been blooming it lacked its blooms to identify what it was. My thought was to cut it down, or uproot it and get it out of the yard. But my mom said no, give it a minute, and lets try clipping it. The person doing our lawn at that time did clip it and cut away all that was dead, diseased and lacking the ability to bare the fruit or bloom that identified its true intent and beauty... The next spring it did indeed bloom. but there was another one who's growth was stunted it died out on its own.
Last night I was thinking about the many events of the day, and I heard in my spirit, some people are just shadey and some people are fruity, I chuckled at the thought....Some of us need to be clipped and some need to be trimmed. Some will eventually be cut down, and others with whither with the circumstances that they are faced with. I was amazed in those moments...You see we can look, a certain way, we can be called to be something, but when we have disease, destructive behaviors and mindset we can become just a person who looks the part but is not functioning in a manner that identifies who God has called us to be. We may need to be pruned, we may need fertilization, but if we make choices that keep us in a non productive status God will pluck or He will command us to whither, or for many of us our production is our life source and without our obedience we cause our selves to whither and die. Many of us want to blame people situations and circumstance for our shadey behaviors and our unfruitful attitudes and characteristics, but it is not people it is us. We make choice daily that will dictate our bearing fruit; it dictates whether our life shows forth fruit or whether it is barren of the fruit or blooms that identify what and who God has called us. It always starts and ends with us. If we are just leafy and look the part, or when we are needed to show up and be fruitful even in adverse situations can we or will we just show forth a look that can not prove to feed anyone to include ourselves or provide beauty for anyone.

　

Are you shadey, or fruity...In this case I would rather be fruity than shadey anyday. I would rather be what God designed me to be than to risk, whithering up and being called dead or living an unproductive life. I don't ever just want to look the part, I want my life to be a representation of who God is in my life. I don't want to be designed to be something and not give forth what I have been called and ordained to be. Bearing fruit is the thing that identifies who our confidence lays and who we ourselves ar being nurished by. It is a season where so many people do not just need the appearance of Godliness and holiness, an appearance of good people, people that support and have their back, they are need of God's representatives in the earth. People that speak his words, but live them as well. People that can tell others how to get to God because they know the way because they have travelled that road and are still on it, not detouring with a mood, or a bad day, with a need of others or something being required of us, after all that is what bearing fruit and blooming is all about it is not for us, but for the benefit of others!