Fruit

I love fruit; the sweet, the sour, the bitter. I love it all. There are so many different kinds, different tastes, different textures. I love walking through a garden or and orchard and seeing the fruit on the plants and trees. Picking it and eating it all at once is amazing. It tastes so good. But i can't tell you how disappointed and how saddened i would be if I was able to walk through an orchard but found no fruit. Nothing to eat. The trees not producing what they are supposed to produce. I would want nothing to do with that orchard.

Are we producing the fruit that we as Christians are supposed to be producing? There are so many different people in the church. Different races, backgrounds, different family traditions, different ways of worshiping God. But we are all supposed to produce the same fruit. Every Christian should be showing the fruit of the spirit and the fruit of new believers through evangelism. When God walks through the garden of His church does he see trees bursting with luscious fruit or does he shake his head in disappointment? Are we, as the church, bearing fruit?