{"id":227,"date":"2012-05-19T05:01:37","date_gmt":"2012-05-19T05:01:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/efnl.org\/rom\/?p=227"},"modified":"2012-05-21T13:08:31","modified_gmt":"2012-05-21T13:08:31","slug":"to-bear-fruit-to-produce-successful-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/efnl.org\/rom\/english-idioms\/to-bear-fruit-to-produce-successful-results\/","title":{"rendered":"To Bear Fruit = To Produce Successful Results"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Bearing According to the 2nd e<\/em>d. of the<\/em> Cambridge Idioms Dictionary<\/em> <\/em>the idiom \u201cto bear fruit\u201d is explained: \u00a0if something someone does bears fruit, it produces successful results. The key word of this expression is \u201cresult.\u201d This is the exact recompense that us, people, are searching for, and expecting from all things that we do. However, too often it happens that we expect the result to just happen, out of nowhere, without us working for it.<\/p>\n

So, before literally starting to bear fruit, there are a few other pre-conditions that should be met. That\u2019s why I thought I will provide my own explanation to the current expression. The idiom \u201cto bear fruit\u201d suggests that before any seed turns into a fruit, it has to be exposed to several phases. It needs to be planted, watered, taken care of, protected by outside factors, etc. Only after this long process is minuscule followed the results are visible and can be easily determined as successful. The hard work is finally paid off.<\/p>\n

Right now I am working on my Masters in the United States of America, and there are times when I feel like I work so hard on my classes, I put so much time and energy in papers and research. These are those times, when the tunnel seems to be too long, and I get overwhelmed by all these \u201coutside factors.\u201d I get anxious thinking that the result of my work is too far away from me and because I can\u2019t see it and \u201ctouch\u201d it, it seems that it is not there. However, pretty soon I realize that any hard work, dedication, sacrifice and discipline brings with itself sooner or later a good result. So, my encouragement to all of you and to myself is that if I continue to water the seed, to take care of it, to protect it by the outside factors, I will surely enjoy the successful result that is worthy to be waiting for.<\/p>\n

A great illustration that comes to my mind and describes this idiom is my parent\u2019s garden. After my mother spends most of time in that garden, planting seeds, waking up at 5 AM to water them, cleaning them of bugs, breeding and sweating every day during spring and summer, she is ready to collect the harvest. Her hard work is paid by the successful result that she has been investing in with her life.<\/p>\n

The Bible provides a long text about what it means to bear fruit. Jesus Christ Himself gave a speech to His disciples regarding this concept. Here is what He said:<\/p>\n

John 15<\/strong> \u201cI am\u00a0the true vine,\u00a0and my Father is the gardener.\u00a02 <\/sup><\/strong>He cuts off every branch in me that bears no fruit,\u00a0while every branch that does bear fruit\u00a0he prunes[a<\/a>]<\/sup><\/strong> so that it will be even more fruitful.\u00a03 <\/sup><\/strong>You are already clean because of the word I have spoken to you.\u00a04 <\/sup><\/strong>Remain in me, as I also remain in you. No branch can bear fruit by itself; it must remain in the vine. Neither can you bear fruit unless you remain in me.<\/p>\n

5 <\/sup><\/strong>\u201cI am the vine; you are the branches. If you remain in me and I in you, you will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing.\u00a06 <\/sup><\/strong>If you do not remain in me, you are like a branch that is thrown away and withers; such branches are picked up, thrown into the fire and burned.\u00a07 <\/sup><\/strong>If you remain in me and my words remain in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you.\u00a08 <\/sup><\/strong>This is to my Father\u2019s glory,\u00a0that you bear much fruit, showing yourselves to be my disciples.<\/p>\n

So, the condition of bearing fruit, which Jesus implies here, is that the branch that is by itself cannot bear fruit. It needs to remain in the vine, the vine being Jesus. When the branch remains in the vine, it produces fruit. Sometimes it gets to be pruned by the gardener (God) for its own benefit \u2013 of producing more fruit. My favorite part of this text is the following sentence of Jesus\u2019 speech: \u201cThis is to my Father\u2019s glory,\u00a0that you bear much fruit, showing yourselves to be my disciples.\u201d As Christians, as Jesus\u2019 disciples, we all should bear fruit, much fruit. Us bearing fruit is to God\u2019s glory who desires for us to bear much fruit. However, the final decision is ours. Am I ready to bear fruit?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

According to the 2nd ed. of the Cambridge Idioms Dictionary the idiom \u201cto bear fruit\u201d is explained: \u00a0if something someone does bears fruit, it produces successful results. The key word of this expression is \u201cresult.\u201d This is the exact recompense<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-idioms"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQgsW-3F","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/efnl.org\/rom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/efnl.org\/rom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/efnl.org\/rom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/efnl.org\/rom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/efnl.org\/rom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/efnl.org\/rom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":231,"href":"http:\/\/efnl.org\/rom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227\/revisions\/231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/efnl.org\/rom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/efnl.org\/rom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/efnl.org\/rom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}