Bear the Fruit of the Lord....

Howdy all! It's been awhile since my last post....sorry for that, but life has gotten busy and all that jazz....you folks get the idea. Today, I wanna talk about bearing the Lord's fruit. Your fruitfulness in other words. Lately with me, I kind of feel like I am not bearing the fruit of the Spirit. But, lets back it up a second and find out what exactly the Fruit of the Spirit is.

In Galatians 5:22 it kind of defines what exactly the Fruit of the Spirit is. It
states: "But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness,
goodness, faithfulness"

That verse kind of says a broad amount of things that "the Fruit" actually are, first its says Love. To love all of God's people, to show them the love that the Lord has for them, and to help them experience that same love in human likeness. These words that the scripture tells us are all really intertwined....Joy, Peace, Kindness, Goodness, and Faithfulness are all basically telling us to live our lives spreading that Joy through Kind and Good actions. Faithfulness is interlinked there in my opinion because the more Faithful you are to our Father and reflecting him through your actions and demeanor instead of just through your words the more you are bearing his fruit.
At Bible Study last night, we watched a message by Peter Haas that was talking about this exact same topic. (that's what inspired me to write about this....how neat is that!) He said something that stuck in my brain, he said in a round-about way that when we spread the Word of God that it should be to lead by example. To not just profess your faith and use tongues to do it, live it, be it, bear the fruit that the Lord has given us. Christians that tend to "profess" more than they "live" are more likely to be "toxic."
I am as guilty of this as anyone else, pushing Christianity onto people, making it weird on them and on me. Trying to get them more involved in the church is my biggest thing really. I mean, there are a group of people that I sometimes try to hard to get to do church things...and Peter Haas's message we watched last night really helped me realize something that I have been lacking in my faith. MY FRUITFULNESS! I have been going through my life thinking that talking the talk is all that can be done to spread the Word to others, but my realization is that if you open your heart up and love everyone and care for all that you meet as well as stay faithful to your Father, you are being Fruitful. This realization hit me like a slap in the face! I don't know, my outlook on things are changing. I hope this little post here will kinda shine my Father's light onto you all that take a gander at this here post. I just want to end this with a prayer.

Lord first of all I want to thank you for all that you have sacrificed for us here on earth. Secondly, I want you to help us to bear the fruit of your spirit and to help us to shine your light in your name. Please remind us that all that we do is in your name and that in everything we do and everything we say that we do it to glorify you and all of you goodness and love. In your name we pray.

Amen