Bearing Good Fruit

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What kind of good fruit is your life producing? If someone looked at your life and the fruit you produce, what kind of plant would you be?

As people of God, we are to live fruitful lives towards one another in this world. Our lives are to produce kingdom fruit. We are to be good trees—bearing an abundance of good fruit.

Jesus said it this way in Matthew’s gospel: “You will recognize them by their fruits. Are grapes gathered from thornbushes, or figs from thistles?” (Matthew 7:16, ESV).

The world will recognize us by the fruit we produce.

When we bear good fruit, God is glorified—and it is abundantly clear in the fruit we produce that we are Jesus’ disciples.

In John’s gospel account Jesus said this about fruitfulness: “By this my Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit and so prove to be my disciples.” (John 15:8, ESV).

May we bear good fruit in our lives and glorify God as his disciples in the world.

In Christ alone, Robbie

A Prayer For The Twenty-fifth Sunday after Pentecost, Proper 28: “Stir up, O Lord, the wills of your faithful people, that bringing forth in abundance the fruit of good works, they may be abundantly rewarded when our Savior Jesus Christ comes to restore all things; who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.” (Book of Common Prayer, 2019).

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