Fruit, fruit and more fruit....

Our country is blessed with so much fruit.  We can get exotic and "regular" fruit year around...but this time of the year there is an abundance of fruit....

Yesterday, I made the Costco run for fruit...so much variety....colors, textures, flavones...I have gotten away from getting fruit there unless I have an event or company coming...as I can't eat that amount on my own ...those big packages are big...

But,even the regular stores have an abundance ....God was so good to us, to give us a great variety....and we just see what there is in America.   There are much more in other countries. That we don't see here on a regular basis....

Genesis 1:12

The land produced vegetation: plants bearing seed according to their kinds and trees bearing fruit with seed in it according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good.   

Genesis 1:29

Then God said, “I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food.

Leviticus 25:19

Then the land will yield its fruit, and you will eat your fill and live there in safety.

Leviticus 26:4

I will send you rain in its season, and the ground will yield its crops and the trees their fruit.

In the old testament, the people were even asked to tithe their fruit to The Lord...

Having lived in Nevada for so many years, we appreciated every fruit that our various trees/ bushes produced.  There was a saying that you only got a crop every 7 years.  I think that is true from the trees.  And that year, the birds seemed to get their share first!!!

You never knew what you were going to get from your garden.... You planted it all, in hopes of getting something..nothing was guaranteed...

It made me ponder ....does the fruit in my life show in great abundance as do the stores???  Am I fruitful?? What does it take to be fruitful....?

Psalm 1:1a-3

1 Blessed is the one.......

2 but whose delight is in the law of the Lord,

    and who meditates on his law day and night.

3 That person is like a tree planted by streams of water,

    which yields its fruit in season

and whose leaf does not wither—

    whatever they do prospers.

Psalm 92:12-15

The righteous will flourish like a palm tree,

    they will grow like a cedar of Lebanon;

13 planted in the house of the Lord,

    they will flourish in the courts of our God.

14 They will still bear fruit in old age,

    they will stay fresh and green,

15 proclaiming, “The Lord is upright;

    he is my Rock, and there is no wickedness in him.”

Proverbs 12:14

From the fruit of their lips people are filled with good things, and the work of their hands brings them reward.

Isaiah 3:10

Tell the righteous it will be well with them, for they will enjoy the fruit of their deeds.

Isaiah 32:17

The fruit of that righteousness will be peace; its effect will be quietness and confidence forever.

Hosea 10:12

Sow righteousness for yourselves, reap the fruit of unfailing love, and break up your unplowed ground; for it is time to seek the Lord, until he comes and showers his righteousness on you.

Matthew 12:33

“Make a tree good and its fruit will be good, or make a tree bad and its fruit will be bad, for a tree is recognized by its fruit.

Luke 3:8a

Produce fruit in keeping with repentance.......

John 15:2

He cuts off every branch in me that bears no fruit, while every branch that does bear fruit he prunes so that it will be even more fruitful.

John 15:4

Remain in me, as I also remain in you. No branch can bear fruit by itself; it must remain in the vine. Neither can you bear fruit unless you remain in me.

John 15:5

“I am the vine; you are the branches. If you remain in me and I in you, you will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing.

John 15:8

This is to my Father’s glory, that you bear much fruit, showing yourselves to be my disciples.

John 15:16

You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you so that you might go and bear fruit—fruit that will last—and so that whatever you ask in my name the Father will give you.

Galatians 5:22

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,

And finally....

Colossians 1:9-11

New International Version (NIV)

9 For this reason, since the day we heard about you, we have not stopped praying for you. We continually ask God to fill you with the knowledge of his will through all the wisdom and understanding that the Spirit gives,[a] 10 so that you may live a life worthy of the Lord and please him in every way: bearing fruit in every good work, growing in the knowledge of God, 11 being strengthened with all power according to his glorious might so that you may have great endurance and patience,.....

Fruit, fruit, fruit and more fruit ....I didn't realize there was so much about fruit when i started this,,, but oh sooooo good and juicy, sweet,, and wonderful....