Lessons From The Lemon Tree
Thursday, December 7, 2023
Bananas, Pineapples, & Nuts
If you put a lemon tree on a hill, in a valley, city, countryside, or next to an apple tree, it still produces lemons. It's our nature to focus on our circumstances, personal life, work life, or financial life, but Messiah doesn't focus on those things. Your circumstance has little to do with the walk God called you to. Salvation is unconditional. Messiah won't ask you about your circumstances on the Day of Judgment. He came that you might bear fruit. If you abide in Him, you'll bear fruit, and that's God's will for your life. It doesn't matter if you're on the mountain or in the valley, if people love you or hate you. You bear fruit not because of what's around you, but because of what's inside of you. This world, with all its circumstances - good and bad - can't stop you from bearing fruit. Learn from the lemon tree: bear your fruit no matter what, because He loves you. His love is unconditional, so your fruit should be unconditional. Fruit doesn't come because of circumstance, it comes because of the tree.

Today's Mission
Today, practice bearing the fruit of the Spirit in every place, time, situation, and circumstance unconditionally.

Matthew 3:8
8 Bring forth therefore fruits meet for repentance:
When John realized that a lot of Pharisees and Sadducees were showing up for a baptismal experience because it was becoming the popular thing to do, he exploded: “Brood of snakes! What do you think you’re doing slithering down here to the river? Do you think a little water on your snakeskins is going to make any difference? It’s your life that must change, not your skin! And don’t think you can pull rank by claiming Abraham as father. Being a descendant of Abraham is neither here nor there. Descendants of Abraham are a dime a dozen. What counts is your life. Is it green and flourishing? Because if it’s deadwood, it goes on the fire.

HAVE A BLESSED DAY AND WEEKEND!!