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Why does a tree bear fruit?

Author
  • Christopher H. J. Wright
Categories
  • Current Affairs and Causes
Illiustration Categories
  • Analogies
Keywords (14)
  • Bearing Fruit
  • Nature
  • Living
  • Living Life
  • Being vs. Doing
Scripture (11)
  • Jeremiah 17:7–8
  • Deuteronomy 30:19–20
  • Ezekiel 36:26–27
  • John 15:4–5
  • Romans 7:4–6
Date Added
  • Apr 16, 2025

Why does a tree bear fruit? Not because there is some law of nature that says it must. But simply because of the life within it, rising up from the soil and water that feed its roots and flowing in the sap through every branch and twig. A tree does not bear fruit by keeping the laws of nature (if we can…

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