something that’s grown within you. I would
just really encourage the person who has
the posture like they are waiting on some gift
that they haven’t been given yet, to shift their
perspective a little bit. What if God’s not going
to give you something, he’s going to grow
something in you? If you’re growing something,
you don’t want it to grow quickly – weeds grow
quickly! You want something that can take root
and have the integrity, the strength to hold the
fruit that will come later. One of my buddies just
planted this little peach tree, a sapling. A year
or two later he came outside and there were
branches all over the ground. The tree was
destroyed because it started to fruit too soon
and the branches couldn’t hold the weight.
You don’t want fruit that your branches can’t
hold. If you want to see lasting fruit in your life,
significant, long-game fruit, then you actually
want to grow slowly and deeply. And I think
God is far more interested in what he’s growing
in you than what has already been given.
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