Lessons From My Grandma's GardenНамуна

Fret Not Yourself

Indulging in an enjoyable recollection of my past events one sunny morning, I reminisced visiting my grandma in a small town in Ghana on vacation. She had avocado, orange, and mango trees in her backyard garden. The garden was on a small hill that descended on a gentle slope. On the top of the hill was an orange tree and below was a mango tree.  Sometimes we found oranges under the mango tree—not that the oranges came from the mango tree but they had rolled a short distance on the ground after they fell. 

My grandma with her wisdom will say to me, "Just because oranges are under a mango tree doesn’t make the tree an orange tree." 

Don’t be carried away by people who have succeeded in their ways. The wicked people you know are prospering from their evil schemes. They have the fruits that rolled away from the tree that produced it. There was a question I used to ask when I was younger: Why do ungodly people have so much wealth to flaunt about? If I only knew then what I know now.

Evil men will do anything for money. Why will someone create a website to help married individuals find people with whom they could have affairs and break their homes? Such a site has over forty million users with some of them well known in our society. The Bible says don’t get caught up when people carry out wicked schemes to get success. They intelligently and mischievously rob other people of their fruits when they create little slopes allowing fruits from other trees to roll a short distance to them. Here’s an encouragement from the Psalmist: Rest in the Lord, be still before the Lord, be silent and wait patiently in the presence of the Lord, because He has a plan for every one of His children.