Monday, September 22, 2014

Fruit (The Fruit of the Spirit in You)

Fruit                                                                                          Day 9

8 For if these things are yours and abound, you will be neither barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. 9 For he who lacks these things is shortsighted, even to blindness, and has forgotten that he was cleansed from his old sins.
2 Peter 1:8-9

Because Christ gave His life, we have access to the forgiveness of our sins! However, knowing this fact does not prevent us from remembering our past faults, even though they have been forgiven. We may struggle to move forward because we feel chained to the weights of our past. With these weights, we are restrained from being fully fruitful. This is not the behavior of someone who is free in Christ, but of someone who is still a slave, shackled by sin.  

Let us remember that through Christ, we may be freed from the weight of our failures, embarrassments, and former choices. When we are focused on all that Christ has done for us, we have the tools to be fruitful. Christ allows our pains to be removed through his spiritual surgery, yet we remain whole. That place of pain may be replaced and filled with the Holy Spirit’s comfort.

Like the music artist Lecrae, let us proclaim, “I volunteer for your sanctifying surgery. I know the Spirit’s purging me of everything that’s hurting me.” Let us be purged so that we may grow in Christ.

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