Faithfulness & Fruit
Like it or not, the scriptures make a connection between faithfulness and fruit. We finished up today at the GNY Command Review. This phrase about sums it up: faithfulness & fruit.
God's faithfulness and the faithfulness of the many in this command have married to produce fruit. God is glorified and the evidence of His presence is undeniable.
Thank you, Lt. Colonels Nestor and Rebecca Nuesch for your leadership amongst the GNY team. It is a collaboration of officers, soldiers, employees and volunteers.
1 Corinthians 12:12 (NIV)
"12 The body is a unit, though it is made up of many parts; and though all its parts are many, they form one body. So it is with Christ."
God's faithfulness and the faithfulness of the many in this command have married to produce fruit. God is glorified and the evidence of His presence is undeniable.
Thank you, Lt. Colonels Nestor and Rebecca Nuesch for your leadership amongst the GNY team. It is a collaboration of officers, soldiers, employees and volunteers.
1 Corinthians 12:12 (NIV)
"12 The body is a unit, though it is made up of many parts; and though all its parts are many, they form one body. So it is with Christ."
posted by Jim Knaggs | 9:19 PM
5 Comments:
Interesting thought. What about those Old Testament prophets who were faithful and never saw the fruit of their labors?
Fruit is not always produced right away.
Sometimes you have responsibility for a corporate fruit tree that is barren in response to long-standing injuries. Faithfulness in tree-surgery or putting out fires in the "firewood" does not always bring the fruit to life while you are still around to see it. Sometimes you only see the very tiny start of a bud that one day will become a blossom to preceed the fruit.
Good point Larry. Isn't it interesting how sometimes fruit is produced right away, and other times it can take weeks, months, years to produce. I know this isn't a 'fruit' illustration, but when I read your comment I thought about how we often plant seeds in other people. Hoping that it'll blossom and grow, but that isn't always the case. An acorn doesn't produce a mighty oak tree overnight, it takes years of cultivation and the right amount of time and preparation before we are able to sit in the shade under its branches. We plant the seeds in other people and it may blossom in a day or a week... but sometimes it takes years of cultivating and preparing a person before they can become mighty men (or women) of God.
Okay, I'll stop rambling now...
I believe it was Ghandi who said this:
"it is the action, not the fruit of the action that is important. You have to do the right thing. It may not be in your power, may not be in your time that you see any fruit, but that doesn't mean you stop doing the right thing. You may never see what result comes of your action -- but if you do nothing -- there will be no result."
e: you can tell by my opener, I'm more on your side of the argument than any other. This concept of fruit is not easy for post-modernists.
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