What Kind of Fruit Are You?

What Kind of Fruit Are You?

"Make a tree good and its fruit will be good, or make a tree bad and its fruit will be bad, for a tree is recognized by its fruit." Matthew 12:13

What kind of fruit are you? Do you bear fruit that comes from God? "But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control...." (Galatians 5:22).

How do we bear love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control? To bear these kinds of fruits means you need to be immersed daily in God's Word, studying it and memorizing it. Start your day off with one chapter of the Bible. Try memorizing one verse a week. It takes such little time to do these things and yet, the eternal consequences of time spent with our Lord are greater then we realize.

When you start putting time into the Word you will begin to want to put more time into it and begin to look more like Jesus. Have you ever watched a baby begin to eat solid food? At first all the baby craves is milk. As soon as they are old enough to get their first taste of solid food you notice a change. At first they may not like the texture, spit it out and get crabby. Yet, the more you present them with something other then milk the more they get use to it and desire it. Then you notice how when you eat their little mouths start making eating motions and they reach for your fork wanting to eat solid food.

Like babies getting use to solid food, it takes time and effort to grow Spiritually. Going through the motions and hearing a sermon once or twice a week does not make you bear the fruit of the Spirit. If you aren't being feed the proper foods you cannot look like the fruit of God. The Bible says, "And we pray this in order that you may live a life worthy of the Lord and may please him in every way: bearing fruit in every good work, growing in the knowledge of God." (Colossians 1:10).

How will people recognize you?

Krista Jones
1.19.07