When I was a child, we had a pear tree in the backyard. Every summer, it was my job to pick up the pears that had fallen off the tree---ripe, spotted, soft and even rotten pears.
Every so often, I would find one that had just fallen off because it was ripe and I caught it before it rotted, but that was rare.
Now my children have memories of when they were young picking up pears from that same tree years later.
Whether you are a gardener or not, no one likes a plant that doesn’t produce fruit.
And you definitely don’t want rotten fruit hanging around! It’s ugly, it’s in the way and it smells.
The whole purpose of having a fruit tree is to have fruit that you can eat.
In Mark 4, Jesus tells the parable of the different types of soil. Only one produced a good crop.
“Others…produce a crop – thirty, sixty, or even a hundred times what was sown.” Mark 4:20.
Like fruit left on a tree too long that falls off and rots, we can have nasty fruit in our lives. It can be...
