Lasting Fruit

We love fruit at our house: bananas, strawberries, grapes, apples, cuties, melons, etc. You could look in our fridge at pretty much any time and find some kind of fruit. Fruit is a healthy snack, provides nutrients and vitamins, and is just generally good for you.

The one problem with fruit, fresh fruit, is that it spoils quickly. We can buy white grapes (they're green but everyone calls them white) and within a week, they are bad. With bananas, just a few days is all it can take for them to go bad. So, when we buy fresh fruit, which is regularly, we eat it fairly quickly.

Today, though, I want to talk about lasting fruit. Today's word is John 15:16, NIV, which reads, "...I chose you and appointed you so that you might go and bear fruit-fruit that will last..."

Of course, the fruit JESUS is referring to is the souls of others. WE can't preserve their souls; only GOD can do that. But, we can go out and tell others the good news that they don't have to spoil and rot and decay for eternity. We know the PRESERVER of all life and if they will give their life to Him, He will keep them fresh for eternity.

We all love fruit. Let's work to try and produce lasting fruit.

Be Blessed,
Mickey T