STEER YOUR FOCUS

One must be careful when making absolute statements: those that have no wiggle room or flexibility for change. Interestingly, in the space of a few sentences as we see in Luke 6:43-45, Jesus makes as many as six of such absolute statements:

1. A good tree doesn’t produce bad fruit,
2. a bad tree doesn’t produce good fruit.
3. each tree is known by its own fruit.
4. Figs aren’t gathered from thornbushes, or grapes picked from a bramble bush
5. A good person produces good out of the good stored up in his heart.
6. An evil person produces evil out of the evil stored up in his heart, for his mouth speaks from the overflow of the heart.

If you have any familiarity with fruits, with a blindfold on, at first bite, you should be able to tell which fruit you have bitten into. That is because by design, each ‘fruit bearing tree’ is meant to be identifiable by its fruits. So you look for the fruit you desire from the tree that should bear it.

Our lens however is on the fourth statement “Figs aren’t gathered from thornbushes, or grapes picked from a bramble bush”. It is a bit of a fallacy to expect to find assorted seafood in a timber market. That  would be both laughable and wasteful. The executive summary therefore is this: ‘

You cannot find everything everywhere because there are specific places to look. Therefore, steer your focus

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