Luke 13:7-9 Then said he unto the dresser of his vineyard, Behold, these three years I come seeking fruit on this fig tree, and find none: cut it down; why cumbereth it the ground? And he answering said unto him, Lord, let it alone this year also, till I shall dig about it, and dung it: And if it bear fruit, well: and if not, then after that thou shalt cut it down.

Given that we produce fruit, it is the seed that falls from our tree that gets planted and a tree emerges. In turn we yearn to see that tree produce fruit. It is a desire of a heart after God to see those whom we have brought to Christ to be productive. It speaks to the quality of the seed which we produced.

There is a flaw in that thinking.

It is not our vineyard and we are not the vine dresser.

In the natural world we plant fruit trees and have a rightful expectation for fruit to be produced. In this, it is our land, our tree and our responsibility to see to its care. In the Kingdom life we live we seldom get to be around that planted seed long enough to see fruit being produced in our expectation of maturity.

Even if we were so lucky to be in someone’s life that long, we still are not the vine dresser, which is the Holy Spirit. Once planted our seed is no longer ours to own, it belongs to the Lord.

Jeremiah 17:8 For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, and that spreadeth out her roots by the river, and shall not see when heat cometh, but her leaf shall be green; and shall not be careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit.

It is the Holy Spirit that transplants your tree to the water’s edge.