Where's the Fruit

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Welcome back everyone!

Today, we are talking about determining which path to take in the mission of your life.  Just to recap a little, we have already talked about several principles in accomplishing all that God has for you.  We have talked about stepping out, even when you do not have all the information.  We have talked where to begin and avoiding possible dead ends.  Well today, we are going to further explore an idea that we have already touched on a little earlier: what to do with the unexpected.

It is vital to remember that God has a calling over your life.  There IS something that He has for you to accomplish.  You just need to find out what that is and do it!

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One thing that I have found over the years, is that following God is similar gardening.  Sometimes when you plant a bush or a tree, or a shrub, it grows different than you expect it to.  You can prune it, and you try to tie the branches here, or manipulate it to grow there, but you as a gardener only have so much power.  For example, if you plant a vine rose, you are going to be extremely disappointed if you wanted a traditional rosebush.  You can prune it, and shape it, and tie it off, but in the end, it is a vine, and it will want to grow.  It doesn't make a very good traditional rosebush.

Well, you are similar to this rosebush [or fruit tree, or tomato bush, or whatever].  You see we are all supposed to grow.  We are all supposed to have our lives bear fruit.  But we really don't know what kind of plant we are when we are first planted.  There are certain rules-of-thumb which apply to all peoples life, just like there are certain rules-of-thumb when it comes to gardening.  However to know what a specific plant needs, you need to know what type of plant it is.  Similarly, to know what you need, you need to know what you are called to.  So how do you find out!?

It's just like planting a seed in the ground.  If you don't know then you don't know.  You can guess as it starts to bud and sprout, and you can narrow your idea as it starts to mature, but ultimately you won't know until it starts to bare fruit.

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Therefore this is my suggestion in life: find out where the fruit it and develop that area.  Are there general principles to life that everyone must follow?  Yes.  It's called the bible.  But above and beyond that, if you start to be successful in an unexpected area, or one aspect of your life starts to become easy for you, or you excel more than others in this area over here, then praise God, your life is becoming fruitful.  Don't get upset, that your whole life mission is not unveiling exactly as expected.  Just realize that you are finding out type of person you are, and you are finding out the types of things you were created for.

My suggestion to you then is to develop those fruitful areas, and prune off the areas that don't come naturally, and the areas in which you are not excelling as much.  Concentrate all your growth, and all your energy in the things that God is blessing and see where it will take you.

Next week we are going to talk about what to do about those areas that you prune off, and tomorrow I have a hilarious story for you.  Don't miss it.