Your Fruit Needs A Different Field

Dear Father,

The Word is GOOD in my soul. It warms me from within and brings me abundant, running over joy and peace. I thank you for Your Word and pray that one plus one is two and there you are. Amen.

Beloved Readers, this Word is all my soul can focus on right now. It’s literally pulsing through my body with an intensity so strong, I feel like it’s going to consume me. So, better out than in! 😃

…and not the kind you buy at the store! I’m talking about the fruit of our lives that is the result of what we sow. More specifically, let’s talk about the fields we choose to plant our fruit-bearing seeds in. There are people at this very moment patiently watching for any sign of sprouting in their fields. They are carefully and lovingly tending their seeds in anticipation and hope for the moment of harvest. But they wait and toil in vain because the field they sowed was never meant to bear the fruit of their seed. These same people expend energy and devote time to a harvest they will never fulfill. Why would someone knowingly continue to pour their mental, spiritual, emotional and physical resources into a field that is not bearing fruit? Perhaps they don’t want to give up because of the investment already made; perhaps the field has sentimental value; perhaps they’re afraid there are no other fields or the other fields are too far; perhaps they’re afraid they have no more seed to sow and have used up their resources. 

I can’t speak for others but I can tell you that I came upon this field once and it was an oasis – unlike anything I’d ever seen. In fact, it was a needed, welcome contrast to the dry, barren field I was currently toiling…but I guess that’s why the oasis was there in the first place. Everywhere I turned, I saw fruit. Without discernment, and nothing to convict me but my flesh, the fruit of this oasis became my desire. I wanted to bear that kind of fruit! It did not matter to me that I stepped into an ALREADY thriving field. All I could focus on was planting my seed, taking a seat under a tree heavy with ripe, low-hanging fruit and enjoying the wait until my harvest.

Y’ALL! The ignorance! The hubris! The envy!

The harvest I so desperately wanted never came to pass. The fruit I desired was not meant for the field I tried to sow. Oh, but let me be clear – there was fruit – it was spoiled from the first sprout. It took me far too many iterations of the same spoiled crop to finally accept that the oasis I’d come to – this plentiful, abundant field was NOT FOR ME! The irony of it all is I prayed over each crop. I dutifully, lovingly and painstakingly pored over every seed and still, the fruit was no good. The heartbreak I could’ve saved myself from, the pain, the humiliation – those things still haunt me. God’s Mercy though! Even as I prayed FOR a crop that God knew was NOT for me, He kept me next to Him in the sovereign knowledge that the moment was close that I’d finally understand why I wasn’t getting what I prayed for. And when that moment came and I cried out to Him in repentance, He took me in His arms like the child I am and forgave me. He stood next to me as I gathered my seeds and began my journey to the field HE prepped and had waiting to bear my fruit.

Beloved, we all have seasons where we are sowing fields that are not meant to bear our fruit. Those fields may be too dry or they may be overflowing with someone else’s crop. You might even succeed at getting your seeds to sprout. But, if the field is not meant for you, it will never yield abundant, thriving fruit. We must understand that a seed can only bear it’s intended fruit in a field that contains the required nourishment. ~Matthew 13:23; Luke 6:43-45~ We must learn to trust God when a once fruitful field becomes cropless and know He will lead us to our next fruit-bearing field. ~Philippians 4:19~



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