Sunday, August 13, 2017

Time to Learn from Fruit Trees.


God created all types of fruit trees, each one with its own season to produce fruits.
Whether in or off-season though, a fruit tree never loses its identity.
And neither does it stress itself because some other trees are having a good time while in their seasons. It simply waits for its turn. 
When it’s the season for an apple tree to produce fruits, no one ever hears any whining or crying from a mango tree that is off-season. It merely waits for its own season. 
And in a mango season, there is never a sign of envy or some negative attitude from cocoa, walnut or any other tree. Cocoa, for instance, takes about ten years to produce fruits. Yet, it's never in a hurry. The tree simply waits for its own time to produce fruits. Ironically, when its time finally comes, just one cocoa pod is worth more in value than all the fruits produced by a mango tree, whose time comes every year.
In spite of this, no mango tree ever wakes up one day to start stressing God through fasting and prayers, to produce cocoa, all because cocoa is a cash crop that is much beloved, especially by those chocolate makers in Switzerland.  

These are mere trees, contended to flow with the natural course of the Mother Nature.
They appreciate the fact that God created them differently, each with its unique attribute.  
But not so humans!!! Even though made in the image of God, they will rather adopt the ways and manners of Lucifer. 
Almost everyone wants to be like the other person. A doctor, created with a talent for medical healing and trained to so do, will abandon it to be an astronaut each time
there is news of space travel.  


A teacher, with a special gift for molding young lives, is too busy distracting himself or herself with dreams of one day becoming another Steve Jobs or Bill Gates.
It is natural for us, as humans, to desire success, comforts and the other good things of life.
But everyone has his or her uniqueness. It's just a matter of waiting for our "season" to "shine".
And there is no reason for anyone to stress himself or herself to death just to be like somebody else.
When are we ever going to identify and employ our individual natural gifts or talents and then wait patiently for the right seasons --- to reap from the “fruits” of our labor?

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