The tropical fruit in Central America is like no other! Once you eat a pineapple, or piña, here, juice dripping down your chin, you will know that it is tropical fruit as it was intended to be!
We all love fruit, yet we sometimes forget the cultivation needed to produce it. Seeds are planted, waiting is required, seasons change, and health must be cultivated. Each plant may take months to reach maturity. Did you know a single pineapple takes two years to grow?
This year on our outreach at Metapán, El Salvador, our team has had the privilege to see the fruit produced by the labor of other people before us. The pastoral family of the church in which we serve had been “planting seeds” in teenagers for months before we got here. Every week, they would spend an evening with the youth and study the Bible with them.
Recently, Anderson, a new youth who is not yet a Christian, joined this weekly gathering. Afterwards, we invited him to our house, and have since spent many evenings with him and his friend. We are hoping and praying that we will see him come to Christ, but we remember that salvation belongs to God. Sometimes God allows us to cultivate the plant and sometimes we get to see the fruit! Yet the fruit belongs to God! And the fruit is filled with more seeds…
Now he who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will also supply and increase your store of seed and will enlarge the harvest of your righteousness.
2 Corinthians 9:10
May you be encouraged today to do your part- planting seeds, cultivating gardens, tasting fruit. To God be the glory. The harvest is His.
By Ethan Horst
Vida220 Student
