Fruit
Whenever I am in Florida, I love to drive by the vast orange groves there. The biggest and best groves burst forth with orange fruit, color, and aroma. It is a great sensory treat. You can literally taste the juicy oranges in your mouth just by driving through the bright, beautiful groves there.
In John 15:8 (NLT), Jesus tells us, "My true disciples produce much fruit. This brings great glory to my Father."
How much fruit are you producing today? Are you bringing great glory to God? Does your orchard consist of just a couple of scrawny trees or vines, producing a puny crop of dried-out fruit? Or is it more like a bright, bountiful orange grove, producing bushel after bushel of plump, bright, juicy, ready-to-burst, colorful fruit, ready to nourish the world? What does your orchard, your grove, your garden look like?
Jesus is telling us that God wants us to be fruitful. God wants us not just to produce fruit, but to produce a lot of it. What are you doing to accomplish that?
Too many Christians are too satisfied with a puny crop of fruit. But that's not what God is looking for from you. God wants you to produce a bumper crop of fruit, not just a couple of shriveled-up pieces. Who are you loving, serving, and witnessing to - today - in order to accomplish this?
Be fruitful. Produce more fruit than you do now. You will be helping more people, and God will be glorified by your fruitfulness.
In John 15:8 (NLT), Jesus tells us, "My true disciples produce much fruit. This brings great glory to my Father."
How much fruit are you producing today? Are you bringing great glory to God? Does your orchard consist of just a couple of scrawny trees or vines, producing a puny crop of dried-out fruit? Or is it more like a bright, bountiful orange grove, producing bushel after bushel of plump, bright, juicy, ready-to-burst, colorful fruit, ready to nourish the world? What does your orchard, your grove, your garden look like?
Jesus is telling us that God wants us to be fruitful. God wants us not just to produce fruit, but to produce a lot of it. What are you doing to accomplish that?
Too many Christians are too satisfied with a puny crop of fruit. But that's not what God is looking for from you. God wants you to produce a bumper crop of fruit, not just a couple of shriveled-up pieces. Who are you loving, serving, and witnessing to - today - in order to accomplish this?
Be fruitful. Produce more fruit than you do now. You will be helping more people, and God will be glorified by your fruitfulness.
posted by Stephen Guschov at 9:01 AM
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