Every Tree has a Fruit

April 20, 2009

Today's Reading: Judges 9-10 and 1 Corinthians 7

In the book of Judges, a man by the name of Jotham tells an odd story. I believe it is supposed to be some parable of some type, but to be honest, I’m not really certain what the heck the point of the story is.

It reminds me of the last scene of the movie No Country For Old Men. For some odd reason, Tommy Lee Jones tells this story about some dream he has. The story doesn’t seem to have anything with anything in the story that we have seen up until that point, honestly. In fact, when the credits rolled, I couldn’t help but think “what”?

I really don’t like it when a film ends on a “what”? I mean, a film should end with “that was awesome” rather than: “what the heck did I just see”?

In the same way, I really honestly don’t see the point behind Jotham’s story. It’s like he’s talking about trees or something, and it relates to the promotion of Abimelech as king. Apparently, none of the trees wanted to be king, because they felt the things they do (give figs, grapes, etc.) was completely diminished if they were to be Lord of the trees.

In the same way, Paul has something to say to the Corinthians when he said “each one should retain the place in life that the Lord assigned to him and to which God has called him”.

Yes, I suppose that every person should do whatever it is that he or she is born to do, right? Now, if only every person knew what the heck they were supposed to do.

Oh, I hate that. It’s not like we are all trees and bear one particular fruit in particular. If anything, we have multiple fruits that must be shared depending on the circumstance.

Did you ever feel like things in life just sort of push you in a direction that you do not belong? Say, for example, you are in a job, and you realize that eventually it will take you to a career that you never wanted in the first place?

This happened to me a while ago, and I had to just leave behind the job I had. Yes, there is some stuff that I regret leaving behind, like security, but I had to be who I had to be: a writer.

Sometimes you have to be who you have to be! Yes, I realize that it is the moral of every Disney animated movie ever made, but darn it, it is still true.