M-m-m-m-m!!! How I love fruit! How about you? I like some fruit more than I like others. My favorite fruit is plums. Not just any plum, either. Have you ever bitten into a red plum? It was red on the outside and red on the inside. That’s the one I like best. When you and I arrive in heaven, and if you come to visit me in my home there, I’ll show you my plum orchard. I know it’s already there. I’m sure my mother, father, brother, sister and grandparents are already enjoying eating some of those plums.

Heaven has all kinds of fruit. There might even be some fruit there that we’ve never seen or tasted before. In the book of Revelation, the last book in the Bible, chapter 22 and verse 2, John talks about the tree of life which bears twelve manner of fruits. I don’t know what that tree looks like nor do I know what kinds of fruit it bears, but there is a tree there with fruit that just possibly we’ve never tasted.

Here are some wonderful things to notice about the fruit that is in heaven.

Have you ever started to bite into a piece of fruit, but you saw a hole in it where a worm had crawled in or a bug had been chewing on it? When I was growing up on the farm, we had wild plum trees. These were tiny plums, not the kind that we can buy in the grocery store today. We always had to check before biting into one to make sure there weren’t any holes. Holes meant that a worm had been drilling and was possibly still in there.

Personally, I don’t want to chew on fruit that something else already has been chewing, AND, I certainly don’t want to bite into a piece of fruit and find half a worm. YUK!!!