Bear Fruit and Let Your Light Shine
Each of us are planted as a seed of highest quality – created in the very image of God – created by God. As we grow, as we take root in this soil, learn the world around us and experience life in its manifold facets, we are expected to produce fruit of the highest quality. Fruit that will resemble our Creator, fruit that Christ not only expects from us, but has taught us, fruit that the Holy Spirit is willing to bestow upon us – love, joy peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. But the question remains. Am I able to produce such a fruit in my life? When God looked at the Israelites, he was burdened when he saw their waywardness and unfaithfulness. And he cries out I had planted you like a choice vine of sound and reliable stock. How then did you turn against me into a corrupt, wild vine? Jeremiah 2:21 Then He expected it to produce good grapes But it produced only worthless ones. Isaiah 5:2 The rest of Isa c...