The Fruit of a Tree is Another Tree

went to a wee pentecostal church on Sunday morning and the man who was speaking, Angus, said one thing that stuck in my mind, "the fruit of a tree is another tree". As I thought about it, it really made more and more sense. Often times we see the fruit of a tree as the produce that we eat that's sweet to the taste and that soothes our palette. The reality is however that trees have not really been fruitful until they reproduce. Production is not the end result of the process of fruitfulness, it is reproduction. In the garden we were called in Adam to be fruitful and multiply. The fruitfulness of humankind is really in reproducing after our own kind. If a tree is never allowed to reproduce and the produce of the tree is always taken to the dinner table then when that trees dies, the season of the produce of the tree would have ended forever. If the tree is allowed to be fruitful through reproducing trees after its own kind then the season of its produce will live on. Isn't this what God has called us Godward to do. To reproduce after our own kind spiritually. Christians begetting Christians through the planting of the seeds of our lives in the hearts of others by our witness and our testimony. We are like trees planted by the rivers of living water, we must be fruitful and bring forth trees after our own kind. The Fruit of a Tree is Another Tree.