TO WHAT TREE DO YOUR FRUITS BELONG ?

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Luke 6:43 A good tree can’t produce bad fruit, and a bad tree can’t produce good fruit

I have been a fun of some Culinary TV programmes, in particular Master Chef. One of the challenges that is quite fascinating to watch is the taste  test, where participants have to identify an ingredient, sometimes a fruit, based on its taste. And this is done blindfolded.

Such a challenge is possible because all things being equal, every fruit has a specific taste. While science has found its way to create hybrids of very different fruits, intrinsically, all trees carry the capacity to bear a specific fruit. The fruits are therefore evidence of what is within.

Thus, to the Christian, the only fruits we intrinsically have capacity to bear are good fruits. Why? Because the tree to which we are joined is goodness itself. We bear the image and likeness of God, and He is goodness itself. So why then do we see the things we see and why do people do what they do in a world littered with billions of people created in the image and likeness of God?

But mind you: before we are tempted to head outside looking for others to bring to order, let us look within and ask ourselves “

which tree do the fruits we bear point to?”

#sly