Wisdom from the Vineyard by Beth MoorePavyzdys

The promise of fruit from the vine and the tree isn’t just about food. It is about hope. It offers thriving evidence of a destiny fulfilled. It means that the land, the grape plant, and the fig tree are doing what they were created to do: produce fruit. 

Hope doesn’t happen in a vacuum. There’s a hidden knowing inherent in hope. In order to exist and persist, hope knows something real, however faint it may seem. That knowing is what we call faith. And faith is not wispy. It’s no wishing upon a star. It is a white-knuckle conviction of what we cannot see.

We know a better world is coming, though we don’t know when and even the best theologians can’t explain exactly how. We know an eternal God won’t stop until He has brought everything full circle. We know because He said so. As surely as God redeemed humans from the curse of sin through the Cross, He will redeem the earth from the curse of sin that caused the ground to rebel against the work of human hands.

He who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will supply and multiply your seed for sowing and increase the harvest of your righteousness. You will be enriched in every way to be generous in every way, which through us will produce thanksgiving to God. 

2 Corinthians 9:10-11

You will reap a harvest of hope.