The Fuzzy Green Peach

This is a fuzzy peach, I think.  It's tiny and very green.  My son left this on my desk the other day.  He's been working with landscape and brought it home to show me.  My immediate thought was it's cute but it's green.  I can't really do anything with it except look at it.  I took it into the kitchen where the cat played with it for a bit.  After that, it sat on the counter for a few days being useless.  I felt a little sorry for it.  While I passed it on the counter yesterday, a thought came to mind.  This piece of fruit isn't ripe.  It wasn't ready when it was either pulled from its branch or when it fell to the ground.  It hadn't yet formed fully.  It hadn't experienced enough time and received enough nutrients from the tree.  It was premature.  Pretty but not yet beautiful with its red-peach-yellow coloring.  If I were to bite into it it would not taste that great.  It would be hard, sour and kind of dry compared to its ripe, juicy equivalent.  If it had been allowed its time to mature, the fruit would have been at its best.
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This is what happens when we want what we want when we want it, and when impatience gets the best of us.  I have known of a few real-life stories where lives have taken drastic detours because of a-Sarah-trying-to-help-an-Abraham-with-a-Hagar type of situation, instead of waiting for the right time or waiting on the Lord.  Oh, the consequences!  If you don't know the story go ahead and read about it in Genesis, mainly chapters 16 and 21.  Much pain could have been avoided had Sarah not come up with that bright idea or had Abraham rejected it.
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There is a perfect time, a perfect season for everything under the sun (Ecclesiastes 3).  Patience produces character and character produces hope (Romans 5:4), hope to live abundant lives, to evaluate and make good solid decisions.  With just the right amount of time and the right kind of light, we can see a picture fully developed in the darkroom of life.
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