Thursday’s Awakening
Topic: Have you died today? Are you fruitful?
We are created to produce fruit and when we do so the seed must die. We were created not just to produce fruit but produce much fruit. When we refuse to die
we are alone in our shell. Our spirit can only be at peace when it is doing the
will of the Lord. When we do other things we may be surrounded by many but
internally we will feel alone. No one can fill that void but Jesus. John 12:24 Verily,
verily, I say unto you, Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it
abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit.
Have you ever seen a peach tree or a rose garden, or an
apple tree? In order for the tree to exist and produce fruit a seed had to die
and be planted. When we serve and obey God we become a fruit tree. We begin to
produce continually. Season after season we will continue to bring forth fruit.
We will continue to touch lives through the gospel of Jesus Christ and other
lives will begin to bring forth fruit. A seed is a hard fruit. The only way the
fruit will live outside of the seed is to die to the earth and allow the
germination process to begin. A seed cannot grow without germination, which is
a process of a seed growing into what it will become. We have to die to this
world and the things of this world and allow Jesus to begin the germination
process in us. Jesus causes us to break through our harden outer shell (pit) of
selfishness and self centeredness.
When we begin to germinate we become God centered and
God focused. We stop focusing on things we want. We stop fitting God into our
schedule one day and week, and we begin to see how we fit into God’s schedule.
We begin to wake up giving God praise before we are fully out of bed. We begin
to ask God what should we do and where should we go before we make any plans.
We worry less on what we want and we only concern ourselves with what Jesus
wants from us. When become God centered we begin to grow outside our tiny little
shell and become something greater with a greater purpose in the earth.
John 12:25 Whoever loves his life loses it, and
whoever hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life. When we remain a seed in our hard shell and
refuse to become the fruit inside of us we will die. Sunflower seeds are sold
by the bag for someone to break the shell and eat the center. Nuts are seeds
that are sold for someone to eat. When we refuse to become fruit we are sold,
picked, and devoured by this world. We are busy distracted with what we want to
do we don’t notice we are being sold and picked, chewed on and spat out.
John 12:26 If anyone serves me, he must follow me; and
where I am, there will my servant be also. If anyone serves me, the Father will
honor him. When we follow Jesus the germination process begins. Jesus begins
growing and developing us into sweet fruit. Our fruit trees will always produce
as long as we are connected to the vine. The average peach tree produces 40
peaches a year. A mature 12-year Golden Jubilee can ripen out over 150 peaches
a year. When we are connected to the vine which is Christ Jesus, our branches
will bring forth much fruit, but it begins with the seed. We must die for our
light to shine and for our fruit to grow. When we are connected to the vine we
are constantly producing year after year.
Do you want to be a seed or a fruit tree? Do you want
to produce the average fruit or can God trust you to bring forth much fruit?
Don’t fit Jesus into your schedule allow him to totally take over your life.
God Bless you and yours! I love you and Jesus is crazy
about you.
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