The Lord wants us to be patient. To allow Him to completely ripen our fruit before He calls us. Isn't that awesome? Doesn't that make so much sense? I watch Joyce Meyer daily and she was holding up a greener than green banana and used it as a display representing us as Christians. She taught me that we must be still and patient and walk each day in Christ while growing and learning. This practice ripens our fruit. The Lord does not call us to Him to use us until our banana ("fruit") is completely ripe. She used the demonstration that we are the fruit on the vine of the branches. What happens so often is people grow impatient with God or angry with God that they give up too early. This does not allow the fruit to ripen. Instead it will rot because it did not fully grow on the vine. I think of it as "spoiled fruit=spoiling God's plan for our lives". The Lord works at His own pace. I was praying for something specific in my marriage for years and years and I stayed strong and in faith knowing the Lord would not fail me and He did not. But it took years before He answered my prayer. I shutter when I think about all I would have missed had I given up during my waiting on God. He wants to bless us richly but we must wait on His timing and demonstrate our faith in Him. So enjoy the journey to wherever the Lord is taking you. Love Him and trust Him and allow Him to bear good and ripe fruit in you. Let Him prune us and shape us until He says we are ready. Amen?!
John 15:2
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