Be Fruitful

You will know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes from thornbushes or figs from thistles? Even so, every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit. A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a bad tree bear good fruit. Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. Therefore by their fruits you will know them.

Matthew 17:16-20

Money, age and fame  don't change who you are, they simply make you more of who you are. 

As a tree grows and matures, the fruit it produces also matures. An apple tree doesn’t change into a tree that produces oranges as it matures; it grows into a tree that produces an abundance of apples. If you have a bunch of apple trees growing in your yard, you would expect to get trees that will produce apples. If you instead want trees that produce oranges, you have to recultivate your field and plant orange trees. The fruit of the spirit won’t grow on the tree of the flesh. You don’t naturally mature into a Christian that produces spiritual fruit if you have bad trees growing in your field. You have to change the trees in your life by planting trees of the spirit and cultivating the ground through your habits so that your new spiritual trees flourish. 

Everything that gives glory to God first has to receive glory from God. 

The spiritual fruit tree must come from the spiritual seed of God. Trees don’t grow out of nothing. The fruit that is produced by the trees growing in your field is of the same type of fruit as the original seed that is planted. A tree that brings glory to God must be planted from the seed of God’s glory. 

“Now therefore, our God, we thank You and praise Your glorious name. …. For all things come from You, and of Your own we have given You. For we are aliens and pilgrims before You, as were all our fathers; our days on earth are as a shadow, and without hope. 1 Chronicles 29:13–15

All things come from God, and without Him, everything on earth has no hope.

If something doesn't give glory back to God, He removes His glory from it.

 The trees growing in your field are the trees you water and allow to continue growing. You decide whether your field will be filled with trees flourishing with spiritual fruit giving glory to God. Your field is not your own, it is sustained by the life given to it by God, and the trees in your field came from God and you cultivate them to bring fruit back to God. As you grow and mature, the fruit you produce will abound so you are able to produce more fruit that gives glory to God. Be fruitful and multiply His fruit.