if you have never been let down at one time or another by a person or a situation you had hope in, which later turned negative, then you have been living on a planet different from ours. Jesus Christ was let down by a green tree from which he hoped to get fruit to eat. He got nothing. He was disappointed and cursed the tree. The Bible teaches, “By their fruit, you will know them” (Mat. 7:16). “This is to my Father’s glory that you bear much fruit, showing yourselves to be my disciples” (John 15:8). We all need to be concerned about bearing fruit so that we do not disappoint our Lord who commanded us to do that. Where do we start? The Psalmist describes a righteous man as “a tree planted by the streams of water, which yields its fruit in season and whose leaf does not wither” (Ps. 1:3). Jesus Christ said, “I am the vine, you are the branches. If a man remains in me and I in him, he will bear much fruit; apart from me, you can do nothing” (John 15:5). Remember, fruit-bearing is automatic when we abide and draw from the source – Jesus Christ.
