Intro: Perhaps you have heard this saying by Charles Spurgeon:
“Do all the good you can
By all the means you can
In all the ways you can
In all the places you can
At all the times you can
To all the people you can
As long as you can
To me, this saying sums up a fruitful life. Hi, this is Dorette Schaal with your daily eword. On this last section talking about fruitful living, my prayer is that you know beyond a shadow of a doubt that your life can be productive and fruitful for God. Here is your encouraging word for today.
In concluding this study, it is interesting to me that fruit just grows naturally when all the right elements are in place. When you plant a peach seed, you get years and years of fruit if you nurture the seed, coddle the seedling, prune the young tree, and provide water, and sun. We should be fruitful not only through the years, but also day after day. To get a continual harvest, we have to be continually planting. We are farmers for LIFE! That means that our life is all about daily planting (through words, deeds, finances, etc.). What is so cool about daily planting is that you get to affect everyone who is around you. When fruit is growing, it naturally is shared with others. So your family gets to see your fruit at work. They get to see the best you, and hear your best words, and be recipients of your best behavior. Most the time we do it all backwards. We put our best self out for strangers and let our family have our worst. YIKES! Let’s be our best self always! Not because we’re trying to be good, but because we are letting the goodness of God show in us. It is the goodness of God that draws men to salvation. We can be magnets the lost, to see them come to know Jesus. That is the best kind of fruit we could ever have!
Fruitful living is: Consistent giving, Perpetual planting, Continual reaping, God pleasing, life changing and most of all…..Kingdom expanding!
I encourage you to read Matt 25:14-30 today. Living a fruitful life should be more natural and effortless than you can imagine. Living fruitfully shouldn’t be a strain! It should be a natural outflow of Christ in us, as familiar to us as taking our next breath. Keep breathing! And keep being fruitful!
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