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oak trees are amazing! i want to be one.

 

check out this cool fact about them..

Oak trees can start producing acorns when they are 20 years old, but sometimes can go all the way to 50 years for the first production. By the time the tree is 70 to 80 years old it will produce thousands of acorns.

 

how interesting that it takes them so long to produce fruit but once they do so much is produced in their later years that it almost cannot be counted. makes me think about how jesus only had 3 years of ministry in his life and then John says that, "And there are also many other things that Jesus did, which if they were written one by one, I suppose that even the world itself could not contain the books that would be written."  all throughout our life as a believer we are bearing fruit in the spirit, but i think it takes years, possibly 50, of growing in our relationship with the Lord before he releases us into our main calling or ministry. And all those years of being faithful with the little and being consistent will produce much in the end. This makes my heart relaxed and calm. There's no pressure to be at the pinnacle of our ministry anytime soon. Just stay faithful in loving Jesus and learning from the situations He brings to teach you and train you in His ways and you'll produce lots of fruit. 

to bestow on them a crown of beauty instead of ashes, the oil of gladness instead of mourning, and a garment of praise instead of a spirit of despair. They will be called oaks of righteousness, a planting of the LORD for the display of his splendor. Isaiah 61