In Due Season

This short phrase is key to our spiritual growth as well as to the farmer and gardener. As trees need to mature before bearing fruit, a process that might take years, so do we need time to allow the fruit of our labors, of our prayer and reflection to ripen into rich, nourishing maturity.  God slowly brings our efforts to fruition with HIS grace and in HIS time, something we in our eagerness and impatience forget or find difficult to accept.  From time to time, it's a good practice to look back, review our lives and our spiritual growth, and note how God has been there every step of the way and that nothing has really happened by chance, but all part of his plan.  We see that "in due season" (Ps 149:15) a lot has been accomplished and we find joy and confidence that in the seasons ahead, we will indeed reach full maturity.  In God's time, not ours.
Bro. Rene