It's Always Good To Water The Apple Tree If You Like Apples

If you want more apples water the apple tree. Don't do more (forcing apples to grow) but with peace and joy ponder the reasons why you first wanted to have apples and how much they can feed everyone. Before long there will be apples you didn't even expect or plan for.

Like Jeremiah, who "had fire burning in his bones, and was so weary of holding it in" he was "Set apart from the others" and so - " His word became the delight of his heart (not the delight of his actions or mind! (the apples ie visible fruit and accomplishments)"

Eventually the word of God became so real to Jeremiah that it was not words on a scroll talking about some ideas anymore anymore but urgent reality he saw all around him that he was distressed to see in his fellow countrymen, so much so that he could hardly stand to stay silent. This is much different from someone who feels a terrible burden of guilt and duty to go do as much as possible in order to make things happen somehow, they're not sure how, but it must be important or something.

Ezekiel and others strongly condemn calling God's Word "the burden of the Lord" as if it is such a terrible burden to carry that God has taken the time to speak to them with his divine wisdom and compassion - so much that they sarcastically said "it is you that are the burden - and I cast you off!"

Jeremiah was certainly not burdened or felt shoved into his "duty" to warn his people about their horrible blindness and evil. Although his life was hard and brutal, he was known as The Weeping Prophet because he truly mourned over his country and this was what moved him to action, not some loyalty to unknowable mysteries and a far off God that can't be reached or understood by us little mortals, so we must carry on under the glare of his wisdom beyond us?? Not hardly. God was there weeping right beside him, weeping at the destruction and ruin of those right there about Jeremiah, although they themselves were too consumed with chasing down their own greed and rivalries to see anything clearly.

Jeremiah knew exactly what was going on, and he knew what needed to be done about it. And it all came from him sitting under the "Watching Tree" (the almod tree was called) and simply watching the world and the words of God until they were his close personal friends through it all.