This spring and early summer were dry making a difficulty
with the blackberries, that is because blackberries are more than 85 percent
water. And so, without the help of our hose, they get shriveled up and are not
very tasty berries.

In a remarkably analogous way,
it is with us. This earth is the parched dry ground. So, even though we have
fruit they are dry and shriveled making them almost unfit to eat, and if you do
eat them, they are not as flavorful, and you feel like you are eating a seed
(you basically are). Jesus is the water from the
hose which we need to bear fruit for if we don’t as
it says here, we will be thrown into the fire…

Matthew 7:19 Every tree that does not bear good fruit is
cut down and thrown into the fire.

And that is exactly what we do in our berry bush. If the
branch is dead or is a thorn bush not bearing any fruit, we cut it down by the
bottom and throw it into a burn pile. Without Jesus, the living water we can
bear no good fruit, and the fruit we do bear is dry and shriveled so it is not
eaten and thrown into the fire with the branch.

Do you have good fruit?

By Tytus Smith, Age 13