Water is Necessary for Any Growth

Like most projects that I start, I end up moving on with my life and leaving the project behind. Sadly the fruit became like that. With my 8 months of separation from trying to grow fruit, all the fruit that I may have already grown, have dried up and shriveled into nothing.

I have no patience. I thought that I did, but I don’t.

I learned this in college. My first month there was okay, but as time went on the situation just got worse and worse. I don’t think I’d ever been that tested, and I failed the test miserably. I would love to on about the situation, but it’s in the past, and best stay there. All I can say is that my temper flared a lot, and stress was high.

An example that I can give of my lack of patience just happened last weekend. My dear ol’ computer decided that it needed to help me along with my lesson. Ironically, I was getting on to write this blog entry, and my computer froze. It’s happened before. Norton likes to fight with me instead of protect me like it was designed to, and my computer would take 5 minutes to load each command I would give it. You may think I’m exaggerating at saying 5 minutes, but in reality it is an understatement. So out of pure anger, I chucked a carrot at the window, really wishing it was the computer instead.

Lesson: if you want patience to stick with you, you have to actually be patient even when the situation is severely frustrating. In order to accomplish this, we must water the tree, and what better water than God himself?

Jesus answered, “Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give them will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal life.” John 4:13-14

I think that this verse can be confusing because there really isn’t any water that we physically drink once and it’s over. But the water mentioned is the Holy Spirit, and if we take time to ask for help to be patient in times we want to be the exact opposite, he will help, and with His help, we can keep the fruit alive.