Fruitfulness, Christian – Charles Spurgeon

SOMETIMES in our garden we have a tree which is so loaded with fruit that we have to put props under it to keep the branches from trembling; there are one or two in this church of that sort, who bear much fruit for God, and are so weak in body that their very fruitfulness of zeal and earnestness seems as though it would break them. I pray God that with his gracious promise he may prop them up. I am afraid that this is not the picture of most of us. You say to the gardener sometimes, “Will there be any fruit on that tree this season? It is time that it should show.” He looks, and looks, and looks again, and at last the good man says, “I think I can see one little one up at the top, sir, but I do not know whether it will come to much.” That, I am afraid, is the photograph of many professors. There is fruit, or else they would not be saved ones, but it is “a little one.” “Herein is my Father glorified, that you bear much fruit; so shall you be my disciples.” May your prayer be, not for fruit only, but for much fruit, and may God send it. Remember, if there be any fruit at all, it all belongs to the King. If a soul be saved, he shall have the glory of it. If there be any advance made in the great cause of truth and righteousness, the crown shall be put upon his head. The keepers of the vineyard shall have their hundreds, but the King himself shall have his ten thousand times ten thousand, for he deserves it all.