The Serious Business of Fruit

A fruit grower works hard to produce good fruit.

They consider the climate, the soil, the fertilizer and pruning, etc.!

We enjoy the fruit of their labour. 

Yum!!

(right now it's peaches!)

We can talk all we like, but talk is not fruit!

and unless it jibes with our walk, it's a lot of wind!

Jer.17:10

“I the Lord search the heart
    and examine the mind,
to reward each person according to their conduct,
    according to what their deeds deserve.”

How we live is serious business

The tree is known by its fruit

Talk is but wind tossing branches

‘Walk’ inaugurates the root

With what ‘talk ‘cannot refute

Who we love most is no secret

The voice of choice, loud and clear

The fruit of the tree will prove it

…who we most love and revere

Love is serious business, dear

Wisdom and folly bear witness

As harvest yields what was sown

Life and love are serious business

Because when the tree is grown

By the fruit the tree is known

"Let's address the heart of matters

And cut to the final goal

 Before time's hour-glass shatters

Before the tree bares the Soul

Where the fruit will tell the whole" 

© Janet Martin

Luke 6:43-45

A Tree and Its Fruit

(Matthew 7:15–23; Matthew 12:33–37)

43No good tree bears bad fruit, nor does a bad tree bear good fruit. 44For each tree is known by its own fruit. Indeed, figs are not gathered from thornbushes, nor grapes from brambles. 45The good man brings good things out of the good treasure of his heart, and the evil man brings evil things out of the evil treasure of his heart. For out of the overflow of the heart, the mouth speaks.

Preserving fruit from the garden grants lots of listening-opportunity, 

to be challenged and encouraged in our own fruit-bearing...

below are a few favorites from the past week!

Obedience: Evidence of a Strong Foundation (Part 1 of 2) - 08/07/23

Obedience: Evidence of a Strong Foundation (Part 2 of 2) - 08/08/23

 

one excerpt-

The church does not baptize on the assurance of faith; 

it baptizes on the profession of faith!

1 John 1:5-7

This is the message which we have heard from Him and declare to you, 

that God is light and in Him is no darkness at all.

  6If we say that we have fellowship with Him, and walk in darkness, 

we lie and do not practice the truth. 

7But if we walk in the light as He is in the light, 

we have fellowship with one another, 

and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us from all sin.

Amazing Grace

The longing of the human heart is actually, 

ultimately a longing to know God

and be known by God, and

the solid joys and the lasting treasures

are only found in God

and only found in God's revelation of Himself in Jesus!

and only enjoyed by those who are prepared to say

'nothing in my hand I bring,

Simply to the cross I cling'

- excerpt from the ending of the above message