SECRET OF BEING FRUITFUL

 

Jesus speaking to His disciples, and we are His disciples, said that we did not choose him but He chose us and ordained us. He explains that the purpose of this choosing and ordination is that we should go and bear fruits, and these fruits should not be temporal, that is for a short season, but they are to last. Jn 15:16

He explains in verses Joh 15:1-5 that He is the vine and we are the branches. We can say He is the mango tree and we are the branches, or you can use any fruit tree in your area that you know of. For the branch to bear the fruits, it must abide in the tree. As long as it remains in the tree, it can bear fruit but the moment it is cut off from the tree, it withers away and dries up. Even if it had borne fruit for thirty years, the moment it is cut off from the tree, it is useless and only fit to be thrown in the fire as firewood. 

It is the same principal in our lives; as long as we abide in Christ, we will bear fruit. We can be Christians for 50 years bearing fruits but the moment we stop abiding in Christ, we become useless to God, even if we have been fruitful for 50 years. We see therefore, that it is foolish to sit back and relax and reflecting on all that God has accomplished through you, but we need to take more earnest heed that we remain abound in Christ that there will be no moment in our lives where we will be useless to God. Our whole lives must be that of perpetual dependence upon God. Our expectation must only be from Him.

It is the branch that bears fruit that is pruned that it may bear much fruit. Pruning is painful, therefore it means that if you are fruitful, God will also allow us also to go through painful experiences in our lives which will cause us to be more fruitful IF WE RESPOND WITH THE RIGHT ATTITUDE.

The branch that does not bear fruit must be cut off; there is therefore no allowance of fruitlessness anytime in our lives.

Peter in 2 Pet 1:5-9, tells us that if we want to be fruitful all the days of our lives, never being barren; we must be diligent, passionate and zealous to add these qualities to our faith. MORAL EXCELLENCE-excellence of character/integrity/virtue, KNOWLEDGE-of God and His word, SELF CONTROL, PATIENCE/ENDURANCE, GODLINESS (fear of God), BROTHERLY AFFECETION, LOVE. This will cause our knowledge of God to increase.

We see that Faith is the foundation but these other qualities are the superstructure; faith alone is not enough and these qualities without faith will crumble and fall. Verse 2-3 says that God has given us EVERYTHING WE NEED TO LIVE AND EVERYTHING WE NEED TO LIVE GODLY LIVES, but it is through knowing God. Pauls great passion and desire was that he might know Christ and the power of His resurrection, no wonder he was fruitful in all His life. Phil 3:10

Jesus in John 17:3 defined eternal life as knowing God and Jesus Christ.

In conclusion, we see that if we are to be fruitful, we must have a personal knowledge of God. And to know God we must wholeheartedly and passionately seek to add the qualities mentioned above to our faith.

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