The Little Mango

I look out my window every morning and I have been watching one mango that dangles high above all the others. I can see it when I am laying in my bed and comment about it often. Everyone says that is grandma’s mango.  It has been there for so long and is the closest to the top of the tree, the sun, the wind and the rain .  I struck me this morning that is is also  the farthest from the  roots waiting the longest to receive water! I have watched as the other Mango, closer to the root of the tree, have ripened and fallen.  This one will have to hang on a little longer than the others. 

I believe we are all like that little mango at different times in our lives, having to hang on a little longer than others through storms in our lives while it seems to us that we are not receiving what we need like others that we see.  Oh if we could only realize how we are being ripened in the Lord.  That He is leaving us long enough to produce in us character that is worthy and necessary for children of the most high God. 

John 15:2
Every branch in Me that does not bear fruit He takes away; and every branch that bears fruit He prunes, that it may bear more fruit.

I pray that I will wait on your perfect timing for pruning and for ripening so that I may bear more fruit in my life and bring glory and honor to your name!