The best of ALL is Fruit in Ice cream! Best way to beat the heat, right?
Even otherwise fruits are used in so many products that we use – from soaps to shampoos to hair oil to hair cream and on and on…
So much of fruit in all that we use! When we look at all these no wonder if it makes one think how much “fruit” is in us!
But are we really filled with fruits? Let us see what does it mean to have “fruit” in us. There is a test called FRUIT-FLESH Test to determine whether fruit is present in us or is it absent.
“ the FRUIT of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control…” (Galatians 5:22, 23a)
Are these fruits found in you or are the following works of the flesh found in you?
“the works of the FLESH are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity, depravity, idolatry, sorcery, hostilities, strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, selfish rivalries, dissensions, factions, envying, murder, drunkenness, carousing, and similar things…” (Galatians 5:19-21a)
But how to live a life filled with FRUITS where the works of the FLESH are absent?
“Now those who belong to Christ have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.” (Galatians 5:24)
First you need to belong to Christ and then crucify the flesh. To belong to Christ, you need to believe in Him and receive Him – believe that Jesus Christ suffered and died for your sins and rose again.
“..to all who have received him – those who believe in his name1 – he has given the right to become God’s children” (John 1:12)
“The one who belongs to God listens and responds to God’s words. You don’t listen and respond, because you don’t belong to God.” (John 8: 47) God’s Word is the Holy Bible. Everyday you need to read and meditate it.
“We know that our old man was crucified with Him (Jesus) so that the body of sin would no longer dominate us, so that we would no longer be enslaved to sin.” (Romans 6:6)
“Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its desires, and do not present your members to sin as instruments to be used for unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as those who are alive from the dead and your members to God as instruments to be used for righteousness.” (Romans 6:12, 13)
Let this Summer be a time for you to be filled with FRUITS! The next time you go to a shop to buy fruits or whenever you eat fruits or drink fruit juice or using anything that has fruit, remember and remind yourself to be filled with the REAL FRUIT!
love
joy
peace
patience
kindness
goodness
faithfulness
gentleness
self-control
Be fruit-filled to be fruitful!
