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 businessThe tree is known by its fruitTalk is but wind tossing branches‘Walk’ inaugurates the rootWith what ‘talk ‘cannot refute Who we love most is no secretThe voice of choice, loud and clearThe fruit of the tree will prove it…who we most love and revereLove is serious business, dear Wisdom and folly bear witnessAs harvest yields what was sownLife and love are serious businessBecause when the tree is grownBy the fruit the tree is known "Let's address the heart of mattersAnd cut to the final goal Before time's hour-glass shattersBefore the tree bares the SoulWhere the fruit will tell the whole" © Janet Martin Luke 6:43-45 A Tree and Its Fruit(; ) No good tree bears bad fruit, nor does a bad tree bear good fruit. For each tree is known by its own fruit. Indeed, figs are not gathered from thornbushes, nor grapes from brambles. The 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! one excerpt-The church does not baptize on the assurance of faith; it baptizes on the profession of faith! 1 John 1:5-7This 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.  If we say that we have fellowship with Him, and walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth. But 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 Godand be known by God, andthe solid joys and the lasting treasuresare only found in Godand 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