It takes ten, twenty, sometimes even fifty years for a Century Plant to bloom. All this time the plant is storing up the energy to bloom. It has one opportunity to produce thousands of buds and eventually seeds. After the tree has fully bloomed and dropped its seeds the huge trunk slowly withers and will start dying. The plant has expended all of the life that it had nurtured and has nothing left to sustain life. It has fulfilled its mission to live, grow, and reproduce.
The Apostle Paul expressed his passion, “For to me, to live is Christ, and to die is gain” (Philippians 1:21 NKJV).
Imagine living only to produce fruit for the kingdom of God!
