Gigantic fruit

Gigantic fruit: 

• a dream of the night (2013′?)

I found myself in an uncultivated area within farmland. There was a farmer standing within this area which was brushy, grassy and scrubby, with no evidence (such as foot paths or planted rows) of tending. The farmer was attired in bib-overalls with shaggy collar-length gray hair and a bushy beard, very simple and homespun in appearance. He started to smile as he gazed across this space, bringing  my attention to some plants and vines that were growing interspersed amongst the scrubby trees, shrubs and tall brown grass. And these plants and vines were richly bearing very over-sized, gigantic lush fruit. Glancing back, I saw Him beaming with a great smile! This is the Lord! my thoughts were, as I was waking…He loves the supernatural fruit of the Holy Spirit! 

What I’m getting from this dream today is that the fruit of the Spirit isn’t always, in the cultivated fields but in the Lord’s secret places.

The fruit of the Spirit:

Love, Joy, Peace, Gentleness, Patience, Understanding, and Self-control is what He loves.

His beaming smile still lifts me up every time I think of it. 

5-6-16 Fr:

Every time I think of this dream now I see a corner of an abandoned farmhouse not many yards from the fruit patch, and I now imagine(?) that the farmer had left this farmstead for some time, and had now returned to find the property untended, yet, where the garden for the family used to be, something delightful was happening amongst the dilapidation…lush ripe fruit.

• 22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law. (Gal. 5: 22-23 NASB)

8-26-19 Mo. 8:49am: 

• The Lord’s appearance as a smiling Farmer was a “milder glory?” that attracts…and not repels?
• See a C. H. Spurgeon email below on God’s “milder glory.”

Evening

“The people, when they beheld him, were greatly amazed, and running to him saluted him.” Mark 9:15

“How great the difference between Moses and Jesus! When the prophet of Horeb had been forty days upon the mountain, he underwent a kind of transfiguration, so that his countenance shone with exceeding brightness, and he put a veil over his face, for the people could not endure to look upon his glory. Not so our Saviour. He had been transfigured with a greater glory than that of Moses, and yet, it is not written that the people were blinded by the blaze of his countenance, but rather they were amazed, and running to him they saluted him. The glory of the law repels, but the greater glory of Jesus attracts. Though Jesus is holy and just, yet blended with his purity there is so much of truth and grace, that sinners run to him amazed at his goodness, fascinated by his love; they salute him, become his disciples, and take him to be their Lord and Master. Reader, it may be that just now you are blinded by the dazzling brightness of the law of God. You feel its claims on your conscience, but you cannot keep it in your life. Not that you find fault with the law, on the contrary, it commands your profoundest esteem, still you are in nowise drawn by it to God; you are rather hardened in heart, and are verging towards desperation. Ah, poor heart! turn thine eye from Moses, with all his repelling splendour, and look to Jesus, resplendent with milder glories. Behold his flowing wounds and thorn-crowned head! He is the Son of God, and therein he is greater than Moses, but he is the Lord of love, and therein more tender than the lawgiver. He bore the wrath of God, and in his death revealed more of God’s justice than Sinai on a blaze, but that justice is now vindicated, and henceforth it is the guardian of believers in Jesus. Look, sinner, to the bleeding Saviour, and as thou feelest the attraction of his love, fly to his arms, and thou shalt be saved.” ~ C. H. Spurgeon