This past spring I planted 2 tomato plants in two round pots and some herbs in a rectangular pot. I did this so that when I moved I could bring my plants with me.
Since moving, my plants have been under a lot of stress. They've been revived several times due to under watering and extreme heat. They've been forgotten while I was traveling and the cherry tomato plant even had a branch snapped half off. I decided to keep the broken branch attached and after a few days it self-healed and started producing fruit! In fact, it has as many tomatoes as the rest of the plant that wasn't damaged in the move!
So anyways, this morning I sat down to do my devotions and I noticed a small green tomato on my Beefsteak plant! All at once I sat there in awe and near tears as God revealed to me the discipline panned out in this plant. Half-dead and under stress, this plant didn't promise fruit. In fact, I had come to terms with the idea that I probably wasn't going to get any tomatoes from that plant this summer since it was so stressed from all the changes (yes that's a real thing for plants). Regardless, I had decided to keep watering it. EVEN IF it never bore fruit, I wasn't going to leave it to die because it is my plant and it matters to me.
I matter to me.
There it was right in front of me. The wisdom God has been growing in me for a long time. EVEN IF "it" doesn't happen, keep working as if it will. My plant didn't die because I didn't stop watering it. I was okay with watering a plant that I thought wasn't ever going to give me anything in return and yet it did! It will.
Sometimes trusting that God is good even if He doesn't give you what you ask for is the hardest part. It was for me. These tomatoes are a reminder to me that God sees me and honors my commitment and my even if mentality.
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