The Question.

Hello my friends.
I do hope this finds you really well.
I've been thinking a lot about you, and hope that you're having a really awesome day.

In my times with Jesus, he asked me a question.
One  came right at me. I'll share it with you.

He asked me, ''What would it be like if you were planted in me?"

 In my time with him, we've gradually got to know each other, and last night we really laughed. I'm so serious sometimes, that I forget to lighten up with him.

So to answer Jesus's  question,  what would it be like to be planted to him, and that gave me an idea, grafted, to Jesus.

Let's have a look at a grafted tree, normally it's an apple or pear tree, or any fruit tree, on good, wood stock. normally taken from a good variety of a fruit tree. and grafted onto a good root stock. The tree normally has a big bulb at the bottom of the tree, this is the graft. that is a grafted fruit tree.
Just incase you didn't know.

So I answered Jesus, I said Lord, you know, what it would be like, very thing in psalm 1, with a tree planted by streams of water, that gives in and out of season.
Whose leaf does not fade, and what ever it does prospers.

He then replied, for you Chloe what would it look like for you?

I told him what it would look like for me, that the more we're planted in him, the more deeper we go.
It's not use just having a little spindly, branches when we be planted in him from the start to get off to a good life.

Spindly branches break and don't produce fruit, and next  thing you know you're under going  pruning, but gradual pruning and training, leads to much fruit.

Sometimes we're hard pressed on every side, but not shaken, its in the press where we produce character and grit.
See when we're planted in Christ, we are fruitful in all that we do, but he requires  the first of everything, your values your character, the way you conduct yourself, the way you are with others, the way you are with your friends, the way you are wtih your husbands, right down to money.

See when we're fruit full, we have left over things to share, in abundance, it's cruital, that we don't give our left overs to God. our mouldy gone to waste things.
Rather, give him the day, fresh and worthy of him, to do whatever needs done in our lives.

And we need to wait patiently, being planted him take patience, fruit won't set if we are always rushing around, being a martha when he has called us to be Mary's.
 Trying to please the lord, with our good works, and always thinking what needs to be done.
 It's not getting you any further ahead, than when you first started off.

Fruit sets, when we've been fed, in the word of God, we flower, and we set fruit, and then fruit grows on the tree. It's that tiny little bit of bud, just before the stalk of the flower, that's what you call setting fruit.

It's important when fruit sets on a fruit tree, that you are well watered, so that the fruit doesn't fall onto the ground, in a self thinning excersise.
 some trees do it like a Fejoa, but most fruit stays on the tree.

So we need to be watered by the daily talks to Jesus, he is the one who conditions our souls, and make sure soft and subtitle.

If you plant a fruit tree in clay on a clay bank, you've got to prepare the ground with lots of compost and good soil to plant your tree in, because clay isn't that  high in minerals, for plants.

So no matter if you're trying to get ahead, of where you've started off, or trying to do  it alone.
Think of Jesus's question.

What would it look like for you personally, to be planted in him?
Fully grafted onto good stock, fruiting in and out of of season, with plenty to share.
What would that look like for you?
I'll leave it there, for you to ponder on.
Much love
Chloe.