Good fruit
and bad fruit
A little further, when I was still walking, I
saw our Fig tree with big Elephant Ear leaf, reminding me of elephant’s ears.
The leaves when they are young are intensely red, and turn more and more green
when they reach bigger size. It is 5-10 m tall very beautiful, decorative leaves,
which offer pleasant shade in the summer. But I was surprised to see the fruit,
the fruits were numerous in clusters on the roots, on short branches and even
on the hard trunk. It was growing like a wild fruit, but when I studied about
it, it is quite useful fruit. The fruit can be used to make curry and vegetable
dish. They are used in diarrhea and dysentery. Leaves are used for fodder. Stem bark juice effective for cuts and
wounds. Root latex is used in mumps, cholera, vomiting. Even though the fruit
does not have sweet smell, still we can see the usefulness. God enlightened my
mind with many thoughts seeing the fruits in garden.
When a man sows a seed, he expects
that the tree will grow up and will be useful by either getting fruits or shade
from it. If a man has so much expectation from a tree, he plants how much more
God will expect from us. In the same way, God wants to see that we produce good
fruit, where we are planted. As it is written in the scriptures “Even so, every
good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit. A good tree cannot
bear bad fruit, nor can a bad tree bear good fruit” (Matthew 7:17-18).
"No good tree bears bad fruit, nor does a bad tree bear good
fruit. Each tree is recognized, by its own fruit". The good man brings, good
things out of the good stored up in his heart, and the evil man brings evil
things, out of the evil stored up in his heart. For out of the overflow of his
heart his mouth speaks. Thus, if we are connected with God, we produce the
fruit God cultivates within us. It is God who does the work in us; our
fruit-bearing is simply a result of what He does.
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| Fruits cultivated by God in us |
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