When God Calls us to Give Fruit Away

Let’s be honest for a moment… as we continue in our walk with God, there are just seasons in life when we don’t feel very fruitful. Subconsciously, I think that I have always believed that bearing fruit only occurring in the cheery, smooth sailing, and sunny times parts of life. But what about when things seem dark, and the deepest parts of your heart are experiencing such pain that you are literally working to make it through the day? What about those seasons in life when you are just surviving? What about those seasons in life when you are certain that you aren’t producing anything?

When I read in Psalm 1:1-3 about the thriving tree that is producing fruit in season, I think I have always subconsciously attached life being fruitful to when it’s lived in the “good and seemingly prosperous” portions of our lives. But yet, fruit is to emerge in every season of life, even the dark and dreary portions.

After we lost our third child to a miscarriage several years ago, I didn’t feel very prosperous or fruitful. I wasn’t thriving but definitely surviving.  I was in pain physically, emotionally, mentally, and spiritually. I remembered my husband and I praying with tear filled eyes that God would use even something so difficult for His glory. In the months to come, God used the pain. When life felt dark, God’s light had still been shining and producing new fruit in both of our lives. I wasn’t aware that God had produced this fruit until the moment came when God had made me aware that it was there, and provided the opportunity for me to pick what He had produced and then give it away. The fruit that God had been producing in my life, in a time of great difficulty, wasn’t a fruit for me to keep, but rather a fruit that He had produced in order to be given away. In a time of hardship, God was producing a new fruit in our lives, and then give away the gift of comfort and peace that God had been supplying to me all along to other moms who had also experienced the loss of their babies.

The beauty of giving away the fruit that God had produced, is that it allowed me to see what God had been doing all along. In a time when I thought I was just surviving the days, I had been in fact thriving. That’s the beauty of being a tree planted by a stream of water, because we will bear appointed fruit in each and every season of life because that is the result when the water of life, Jesus, is our constant supply.

God is our fruit supplier in every season of life, and especially seasons of darkness! Stay connected to His constant supply of living water and allow Him to produce the fruit in your life … fruit to be given away!