Fruity
I found a verse about a fig tree with no fruit and how God wants to cut the tree down (Luke 13:7).
Actually this verse is very simple but I'm not satisfied and even bear extra curiosity. Why the tree has no fruit? There’s no sign of the tree being damaged or its trunk being broken.
Being graduated in Biology Major during high school, I did a little research on how the tree lives. The physical appearance looked fine, so there must be an "internal disease". Just like some Christians; they seem holy and have a great spiritual health in their outer appearance but their "inner spirit condition" are terribly dying.
Through my reading research in some biology books, I found two things:
(Assuming the root is Jesus, the shallow cambium in the tree trunk is us and the fertilizer/nourishing food is God’s Words and Holy Spirit)
"The root has the ability to supply/push the nourishing food (or fertilizer) from the ground into the plants/trees."
Jesus Christ is the one who supplies the food/fertilizer into the cambium. We only have to distribute it till the end (becoming fruity). What's so difficult of becoming God's cambium? Are we too stupid? Even the dumb one is able to distribute things when being told so.
"The food is delivered through shallow cambium. The cambium is very shallow so the food should queue in line to reach the branches and leaves. When the front queue line moves forward one step, then the back line will also follow to move one step. But when the front part is stuck, then the back line is unable to move forward. This distribution movement should be supported by the ‘magnetism force’ between the shallow cambium and the food itself."
This reminds me of the verse in John 15:5; we abide in Christ and Christ in us. It's not a reversing in words-game but it's just the way it is and of this I believe as the "magnetism force" between the shallow cambium and the food itself. "God abides in us" obviously becomes the task of the tree root (Jesus), whereas "we abide in God" is the cambium task (distribute the nourishing food to the entire tree until the tree grow fruits).
We are often lack of this magnetism force. We often receive God’s Words and even ask for His Holy Power without realizing that the next step is to "grasp and deliver" God's Words and Power in every aspect of our life to be fruity in Christ. We often become stagnant and our cambium stuck "the food" proper distribution (related to the second process I wrote in previous passage).
We can say that we've received too much of God's Words and Power; yet too little, moreover, forget to use God's Words in our daily life so we are lack of "the fruit" because the fruit we ought to produce is the action of God’s Words in our real daily life.
Sometimes we also act like the wise ones. That's why Jesus said that Christian faith is foolishness to the world. So being fruity is becoming the loyal cambium to distribute His Blessing for our surrounding.
Fruity
I found a verse about a fig tree with no fruit and how God wants to cut the tree down (Luke 13:7).
Actually this verse is very simple but I'm not satisfied and even bear extra curiosity. Why the tree has no fruit? There’s no sign of the tree being damaged or its trunk being broken.
Being graduated in Biology Major during high school, I did a little research on how the tree lives. The physical appearance looked fine, so there must be an "internal disease". Just like some Christians; they seem holy and have a great spiritual health in their outer appearance but their "inner spirit condition" are terribly dying.
Through my reading research in some biology books, I found two things:
(Assuming the root is Jesus, the shallow cambium in the tree trunk is us and the fertilizer/nourishing food is God’s Words and Holy Spirit)
"The root has the ability to supply/push the nourishing food (or fertilizer) from the ground into the plants/trees."
Jesus Christ is the one who supplies the food/fertilizer into the cambium. We only have to distribute it till the end (becoming fruity). What's so difficult of becoming God's cambium? Are we too stupid? Even the dumb one is able to distribute things when being told so.
"The food is delivered through shallow cambium. The cambium is very shallow so the food should queue in line to reach the branches and leaves. When the front queue line moves forward one step, then the back line will also follow to move one step. But when the front part is stuck, then the back line is unable to move forward. This distribution movement should be supported by the ‘magnetism force’ between the shallow cambium and the food itself."
This reminds me of the verse in John 15:5; we abide in Christ and Christ in us. It's not a reversing in words-game but it's just the way it is and of this I believe as the "magnetism force" between the shallow cambium and the food itself. "God abides in us" obviously becomes the task of the tree root (Jesus), whereas "we abide in God" is the cambium task (distribute the nourishing food to the entire tree until the tree grow fruits).
We are often lack of this magnetism force. We often receive God’s Words and even ask for His Holy Power without realizing that the next step is to "grasp and deliver" God's Words and Power in every aspect of our life to be fruity in Christ. We often become stagnant and our cambium stuck "the food" proper distribution (related to the second process I wrote in previous passage).
We can say that we've received too much of God's Words and Power; yet too little, moreover, forget to use God's Words in our daily life so we are lack of "the fruit" because the fruit we ought to produce is the action of God’s Words in our real daily life.
Sometimes we also act like the wise ones. That's why Jesus said that Christian faith is foolishness to the world. So being fruity is becoming the loyal cambium to distribute His Blessing for our surrounding.