Five Years for Fruit

Lev 19:19-31         9/7/2017

My needs will be satisfied to the extent that I put God’s purposes ahead of my own.

“Plant a tree and wait for five years to harvest.”

Wait? – You plant a tree and wait five years?

A lot can happen in five years. This may not work out.

Our nature is to want both control and certainty. So God’s contingency is a frustration. He might, it seems, do anything. I may like that or not.

A lot can happen in five years.

In frustration I’ll seek a gypsy with some tea leaves and trust her with my darkest fears. The stupidity of this is hard to write on paper. It’s embarrassing. But still, I’m attached to my gypsy.

The freedom is to trust God – the person of God.

The person of God loves you and has provided for you.

So it seems; one great challenge in life is to give attention to Him – even when your favorite gypsy is talking.

“But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be given you besides.” Matt 6:33