Thought For Today: “No Fruit Without Roots”

Gardeners will tell you not to expect fruit from the trees you plant until several years have passed. The reason is that the tree needs time to spread its roots, and the deeper the roots, the better the fruit.

Our problem is that we want fruit right away. This is true in our spiritual lives as well. Like any child, we want maturity before we grow up. But maturity takes time and deep roots.

After we’ve been planted, after we accept Jesus as our Savior and Lord, we need to grow our roots down into the Lord and His word. We need our roots to reach the abundant waters of the Holy Spirit.

“It was beautiful in greatness and in the length of its branches, because its roots reached to abundant waters.” (Ezekiel 31:7)

In Psalm 1:1-3, it says, “Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor stands in the path of sinners, nor sits in the seat of the scornful; but his delight is in the law of the Lord, and in His law he meditates day and night. He shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that brings forth its fruit in its season, whose leaf also shall not wither; And whatever he does shall prosper.”

Therefore, let’s start by tapping into our roots in God and His word so we can tap into the rivers of living water from the Holy Spirit and receive nourishment from God and His word, so we will have that abundant fruit.

Jesus said, “By their fruits you will know them.” (Matthew 7:20)