List your top 5 favorite fruits.
There are thousands of types of fruit in the world, with estimates suggesting over 2,000 distinct species of edible fruits exist globally—apples alone are estimated to have over 7,500 varieties.
As bodily food, my top five favourite fruits are fig, date, olive, apple, and orange. I value the top three for both health and sentimental reasons. They originally grew in ancient Israel—the land of milk and honey—as if the milky sap of the olive and the natural sweetness of the date in the plant-based Edenic ideal, the promised land granted to the Israelites by God. As for apple and orange, I like them purely for health reasons. I have eaten an apple every day since I was a child, believing that an apple a day keeps the doctor away, though I do not eat figs, dates, or olives daily.
Besides the apple I eat daily, I enjoy round-the-clock the Fruit of the Spirit: love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control (Galatians 5:22–23). Without a fruitful spirit, a body—though healthy—is fruitless.
While chasing good things, should people not also be good themselves?
The Lord Jesus says, “I am the true vine, and my Father is the gardener. He cuts off every branch in me that bears no fruit, while every branch that does bear fruit he prunes so that it will be even more fruitful” (John 15:1–2). The Lord also says, “Likewise, every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit. A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, and a bad tree cannot bear good fruit” (Matthew 7:17–18).
The branches of a good tree cannot bear bad fruit, yet fruit can go rotten if not properly treated.
Thanks be to God for His wonderful creation—all He does, He does for the good of mankind. While being grateful to God for His love and grace, would you like to bear good fruit in your life?
I wrote this poem to remind myself and others of the need to bear good fruit and stay away from temptation in this transient life.
✨ Good & Bad ✨
A good tree bears good fruit,
A bad tree bears bad fruit.
The good tree bears no evil from its core—
Yet even good fruit can rot on the floor.
The world is vast, temptation vast—
Good turns to bad, bad turns to worse.
Must a person be reborn entirely,
Or shattered to dust entirely?
Light hints at the answer…
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And I am grateful for the provision of food by the Creator.
Genesis 1:11
Then God said, “Let the land produce vegetation: seed-bearing plants and trees on the land that bear fruit with seed in it, according to their various kinds.” And it was so.
Genesis 1:29
Then God said, “I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food.”
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