Fruit in Season

From: The Christian Shepherd: 1999 By: John Gifford Bellett

• 1 min. read • grade level: 8

He was the “tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season” (Psa. 1:3³And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper. (Psalm 1:3)). The moral glory of the “child Jesus” shines in its season and generation, and when He became a man, that glory gets other seasonable expressions He knew when to own the claims of His mother and when to resist them (Luke 2:51; 8:21⁵¹And he went down with them, and came to Nazareth, and was subject unto them: but his mother kept all these sayings in her heart. (Luke 2:51)
²¹And he answered and said unto them, My mother and my brethren are these which hear the word of God, and do it. (Luke 8:21); John 19:27²⁷Then saith he to the disciple, Behold thy mother! And from that hour that disciple took her unto his own home. (John 19:27)).

He also knew Gethsemane and the holy mount, both in their season the one in winter and the other in summer to His spirit. He trod each path or filled each spot in that mind that was according to the character it bore under God’s eye.

All was perfect in its combinations, as well as in its season. He wept as he was reaching the grave of Lazarus, though He knew that He carried life for the dead. Divine power would leave human sympathies free to take their full course.

J. G. Bellett

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