Weekly Devotion
"Fruit"
Hi Faith Family!
I pray you are happy and healthy today . . .
. . . perhaps enjoying some nice fruit.
How often do we give thought to fruit? Do you have a favorite? Perhaps the potassium-rich bananna. Apple-a-day man are you? Perhaps your tastes drift more toward the exotic, like the kiwi, or papaya.
During this picnic season, please don't slight the classic watermelon. We had our church picnic this past Sunday at Ann Morrison Park in Boise. There were about 70 or so people who enjoyed the picnic together, which included not only the burgers and brats, but also the thit nuong and suong nuong. It was so much fun!
One of our group told me on Monday that we had gone through 4 watermelons, too! Wow! It was awesome melon, too. Just the perfect sweetness, not mushy. Well, here--check it out:
Maybe you are saying to yourself, "Hey Trinh--cut me a slice!" Good thing she has her tinted designer safety goggles on (oh, wait--those are her Gucci sunglasses). The picture doesn't lie. I kept seeing the volleyball and badmiton players run over and grab a slice. Little 2 year old Laura devoured an entire slice . . . and that was after a nice lunch!
What a wonderful thing for which to be thankful. Part of living well is appreciating the little things in life, they say. I agree, with one addendum: then thank God for it. It was all God's idea, of course. From the very beginning, God created fruit for us.
"The land produced vegetation: plants bearing seed according to their kinds and trees bearing fruit with seed in it according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good."
Praising God for blessing our lives with special gifts. Just give thought to all of the wonderful varieties of fruit! How loving and giving our God is!
Always what we can't have is what we want, of course, as it was from the beginning. I'm not talking about fruit that isn't in season, but the greed that always seems to be in season. Eve took and ate fruit that was not for her to eat. Adam did the same. Then nothing was ever the same again. The foul seeds of sin were planted into the soil of every purely human heart.
Thankfully, Christ tasted death for everyone, enduring the punishment for the sin which had germinated from the first generation through ours to the last.
With the joy of forgiveness ever ripe on the branches of those who are planted by the springs of Living Water, we enjoy the gifts of our gracious God. We enjoy the gifts of God--delicious oranges, grapes bursting with flavor, longans and dragon fruit until the day we eat from the Tree of Life. God bless you and this day as you enjoy all of God's blessings--large and small--and give thanks to Him.
Blessings on your week!