Will They Bear Fruit?

Will They Bear Fruit?
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"Even now the ax is lying at the root of the trees; every tree therefore that does not hear bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire."
Luke 3:9

I can't pass up an excuse to take a picture of trees. I find trees in winter extremely beautiful. All the leaves stripped away. Just the barren structure of the branches reaching out and up. These trees will bear fruit again in the Spring. That is what they were made to do. That is what we were made to do. We may go through barren seasons, winters of our lives when we are stripped bare once again, but we are made to bear fruit. For some, Advent is just such a season of waiting, a season to be stripped bare, a season of dormancy, waiting again for the shoot of Jesse to spring forth. For those in such a season, may you know that God is walking closely with you.