Mensa Otabil - A Fruit After Its Kind (10/28/2025)
We’ve been talking about fruitfulness, and we started by discussing the fact that God has made the earth a fruitful place. Wherever we are, we can be fruitful. Then we talked about the fact that God has placed within us something we call the seed or the potential to be fruitful. Now we’re taking it from there to talk about what kind of fruit to produce: Genesis chapter 1, verse 24. Then God said, «Let the earth bring forth the living creature according to its kind,» the creeping thing and the beast of the earth, each according to its kind. And it was so. Our minds produce ideas, our hands manufacture things, our lips produce words, and our spirits produce morality and ethical behavior. These are some of the things we can be fruitful and productive in.
In the passage today, it says that everything produces after its kind. So if God places a seed within us, what kind will it produce? When a farmer wants to grow a crop, he plants a seed to produce that crop. If the farmer wants to cultivate corn, he plants corn seed. Why? Because the corn seed will produce corn fruit. Everything produces after its kind. The whole idea is that when God gives you something from within, the potential of what we call the seed, it will only produce after its kind.
For example, if someone wants to produce music, what seed must they sow? Of course, they can’t sow corn or apple seeds to get apples; they have to produce from something within them that is musical — the musical gift that God has given them, or the musical seed, or the musical potential that resides within them. We produce after our kind. For a person to be a doctor, the seed of a doctor must be in them. For a person to be a nurse, the seed of a nurse must be in them. For a person to be a pastor, the seed must be present.
Usually, we call the seed a calling-a calling, a gifting, a talent, or an ability. However we term it, we mean that the person has the potential to become it. If a pastor has a calling, it is the potential to be a pastor. If a nurse has a calling, it is the potential to be a nurse. Everything produces after its kind. God has given each one of us something within us; what He has planted will produce after its kind.
The problem is that sometimes we have something within us, but we want to produce what someone else is producing, their kind, and we don’t have the seed for it. Our lives can become a meaningless pursuit, trying to mimic and imitate others. God has created us in such a way that each one of us can excel somewhere. We may not all excel equally in the same field, but each one has a place of excellence that they must pursue. It’s great to go to school and learn something; it gives you training. However, it’s better that your training aligns with your potential because when you do that, you become fruitful.
The seed God has given you and your training must be in agreement. Don’t be discouraged. I know sometimes people ask, «What if I train for the wrong thing?» Most times, we don’t end up going the wrong way. The reason is that the seed God has given you — the calling He has placed on you, whatever field it’s in-is so strong that it drives you without you even knowing it. It leads you, so you find that your aptitude, your thought patterns, your passions, and the things you gravitate toward all lead you one way or another to land at the place God has called you to be, except if someone deliberately interferes in your development process and misguides you.
Then you may end up doing something differently. But most of the time, just go with what they say -go with the flow. You may end up doing what God has created you to be. So the earth is a fruitful place. God has given us the potential, the seed, and whatever God has put within us can produce what it is designed to produce. It will produce after its kind. So don’t be afraid about whether your life can be fruitful or not; it will be fruitful because God has invested so much in you.
Let us pray:
Heavenly Father, help me fulfill the assignment for which You created me. I want to be the best for You. In Jesus' name, amen and amen.