During my quiet time I heard these words "Where is the FRUIT?" It reminded me of the insistent little old lady on the Wendy's commercial years ago. You know the one, "the Where's the Beef?" little old lady.

Seems like lately I've seen alot of "fruit bats" atttacking the fruit that is supposed to be found in the Christian's life.

Galations 5:22-25
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law. 24Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the sinful nature with its passions and desires. 25Since we live by the Spirit, let us keep in step with the Spirit.

So basically God wants to know "Where is the fruit??" Right above the fruit verses, this is what the Lord admonishes us to beware of:


Galations 5:16S
So I say, live by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the sinful nature. 17For the sinful nature desires what is contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit what is contrary to the sinful nature. They are in conflict with each other, so that you do not do what you want. 18But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under law.
19The acts of the sinful nature are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity and debauchery; 20idolatry and witchcraft; hatred, discord, jealousy, fits of rage, selfish ambition, dissensions, factions 21and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I did before, that those who live like this will not inherit the kingdom of God.


I've realized I have to guard my fruit-because spiritual fruit bats will try to devour it and I don't want to be left fruitless. So my thoughts, actions, words and emotions need to line up with the fruitful qualities of living the Spirit-filled life. I must not only talk the talk, but be sure I am walking the walk.

Think about...
Where is the fruit?
wow-sometimes God can just be incredibly direct can't He?

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Heb 4:1 For as long, then, as that promise of resting in him pulls us on to God's goal for us, we need to be careful that we're not disqualified. 2We received the same promises as those people in the wilderness, but the promises didn't do them a bit of good because they didn't receive the promises with faith. 3If we believe, though, we'll experience that state of resting. But not if we don't have faith. Remember that God said,
Exasperated, I vowed,
"They'll never get where they're going,
never be able to sit down and rest."


God made that vow, even though he'd finished his part before the foundation of the world. 4Somewhere it's written, "God rested the seventh day, having completed his work," 5but in this other text he says, "They'll never be able to sit down and rest."

6So this promise has not yet been fulfilled. Those earlier ones never did get to the place of rest because they were disobedient. 7God keeps renewing the promise and setting the date as today, just as he did in David's psalm, centuries later than the original invitation:
Today, please listen,
don't turn a deaf ear . . .

8And so this is still a live promise. It wasn't canceled at the time of Joshua; otherwise, God wouldn't keep renewing the appointment for "today." 9The promise of "arrival" and "rest" is still there for God's people. 10God himself is at rest. And at the end of the journey we'll surely rest with God. 11So let's keep at it and eventually arrive at the place of rest, not drop out through some sort of disobedience.
The Message Bible version

This is the passage I read this morning during my quiet time. Wow- I want to be sure I don't miss what God wants to do in my life because of disobedience or a lack of faith. Ponder this passage today and examine your heart- I know it was convicting to me. Let's get ready because God is going to do awesome things in our hearts, lives and in Life Church.