Plucking Fruit From The Tree Of Life

She may have gone through all the steps that we so often go through. Looking for speedy deliverance and, not finding it, settling into fatalistic resignation, and finally growing tired of the suffering, daring to pray, “Lord, how long? How long?”

But today, Jesus was passing by. The Tree of Life was finally within reach, and she decided to stop waiting, and reach up, confident of His goodness, and take and eat of the life-giving fruit.

How long have you waited, sufferer? How many places have you looked for the answer, and been disappointed? Have you been through all the steps? Desperation - resignation - frustration - despair...JESUS IS PASSING BY. This is our God; the One whose all-seeing eye searches the hearts of men, looking for faith...and when He finds it is quick to say, “I WILL”...for He loves to answer faith in the affirmative.

“IF you ask anything in my name believing, it shall be done to you”, He said.

Stop waiting. Reach up and take the fruit believer; the limbs are well within reach, and no one goes away from the Tree unfed.

Have you ever stopped to realize that Adam and Eve were only denied the fruit of ONE tree? Just that one! The tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Nothing else in the garden was denied them. That means that had they not eaten the forbidden fruit, they would have been welcome to the fruit from the Tree of Life, which was also there. God never denied men access to the Tree of Life...SIN DID!

In John’s Revelation we are promised that to him who overcomes will be granted the right to “eat of the Tree of Life, which is in the Paradise of God.” (Rev 2:7)

God is anxious to give us that fruit, Christian! He does not give grudgingly; He yearns for us to come and take and eat!

We may come to the Tree for many different reasons, with many different frames of mind and degrees of need. Some find themselves under its shade unknowingly, by His grace alone. Others come there in desperation, others in unwavering faith. And at various times we all find ourselves there by these various means and for these various reasons.

But the Tree never changes, folks. He is the source of all our provision, all our healing, all our life, and His perpetual invitation to us is, “Take, eat, live”

No one goes away from the Tree hungry.