God’s Kingdom is for the Fruitful
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What is the purpose of our fruitfulness? What does God do with the unfruitful and with the fruitful?
The kingdom of God is for those who produce kingdom fruit for God. Those who do not generate fruitfulness for God do not get the opportunity and the blessing to enjoy God’s fruitful kingdom.
When we produce kingdom fruit, we enjoy a fruitful relationship with God and inherit his fruit-filled kingdom.
In Matthew’s Gospel, Jesus spoke this truth to the unfaithful people, saying, “Therefore I tell you, the kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a people producing its fruits.” (Matthew 21:43, ESV).
God desires that we bear fruit. God gives us dominion over his vineyard to steward it for his purposes. It is God’s vineyard. We steward God’s resources for God’s glory and for his kingdom purposes. The fruit is God’s fruit.
The vineyard, the tenants, and the fruit of the vineyard are all for the purposes of the owner of the vineyard—God. We are all tenants of God’s vineyard, called to produce fruit for God, and for his kingdom purpose. We enjoy the fruit that God enables us to produce as long as we are submitted to God in his presence and in obedience to him.
May we be fruitful for God and enjoy his fruitful kingdom.
A Collect for The Fifth Sunday in Lent: Passion Sunday: “Almighty God, you alone can bring into order the unruly wills and affections of sinners: Grant your people grace to love what you command and desire what you promise; that, among the swift and varied changes of this world, our hearts may surely there be fixed where true joys are to be found; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen.” (Book of Common Prayer, 2019).
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