{"id":1062,"date":"2017-01-24T12:01:00","date_gmt":"2017-01-24T18:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/do-they-know-us-by-our-frui-2\/"},"modified":"2019-02-18T10:08:48","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T16:08:48","slug":"do-they-know-us-by-our-frui-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/?p=1062","title":{"rendered":"Do They Know Us By Our Fruit?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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My inspiration for today\u2019s post was seeing my sweet granddaughter’s post yesterday. She said, \u201cDoing my civic duty! Proud to be an American, where we the people have a voice!\u201d I loved that and I love \u201cher voice\u201d \u2013 one that is kind and giving, with desire to do her part. A juror gets to judge. But what about the rest of us? <\/p>\n

How easy it is to judge the likes of folks whose poor attitude, angry spirit and crankiness seems to bring a dark cloud with them when they come into the room. We randomly judge someone when they\u2019ve made a bad decision that you warned them not to make or maybe we judge an outfit someone wore, a new hairstyle, the lack of someone\u2019s personal pride, the way they handle their business affairs, and the good or bad language they speak. Whew! Oftentimes, it\u2019s a workout to keep from being judgmental especially when we see the \u201cfruit\u201d of the actions of some of those folks. <\/p>\n

But Jesus set the record straight about judging. He said in Matthew 7:1 \u201cJudge not so you won\u2019t be judged.\u201d Yikes! I sure don\u2019t want to be judged. On the other hand, maybe we should be Fruit Inspectors — especially when we see fruit (rotten fruit at that \u2013 okay, forgive me, that\u2019s judging) that causes us to check out our own fruit as to whether what others see in us is sweet and tasty fruit. <\/p>\n

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Having love for some unlovable folks, finding peace in the midst of chaos, experiencing joy when folks may be getting on our last nerve — can be quite a feat any time, but most certainly, in the last several weeks, we\u2019ve been given all kinds of opportunities to decide. Is it love or hate, peace or anger, bitterness or happiness, crankiness or joyfulness? Remembering the scripture\u2026 “What the heart is full of….the mouth speaks” (Luke 6:45)? Doesn\u2019t that give us pause for giving ourselves a good old fruit inspection?<\/p>\n

When we opened the door of our hearts to God….He walked through the door with a treasure chest full of everything we would need to overcome and be successful in every area of our life. We do our best to resist judging, and, then I clearly got the message “I’m not asking you to be their Fruit Inspector. I’m asking you to inspect your own fruit.” That’s when I know God is telling me to amp up that fruit in my own life — to be sure that what my heart is full of, bears the Fruit of the Spirit qualities: Galations 5:22,23 “But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, meekness, self-control.”<\/p>\n

When I said that God is calling us to be FRUIT inspectors, that applies to Matthew 7:20 \u2013 \u201cTherefore, by their FRUITS, you will know them.\u201d WOW \u2013 that\u2019s how we\u2019re recognized as devoted followers of Christ\u2026OR NOT — by our FRUITS. So as FRUIT inspectors\u2026.first, we need to pass the test on the FRUITS we, ourselves, are bearing.<\/p>\n

It really is the season for “Fruit Bearing\u201d. After all, as believers, we know Holy Spirit is in us so we already have the good soil, fertilizer, nutrients and everything else we need to be choice, bright, luscious, sweet, refreshing, top quality FRUIT bearers to a world that could sure use some. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My inspiration for today\u2019s post was seeing my sweet granddaughter’s post yesterday. She said, \u201cDoing my civic duty! Proud to be an American, where we the people have a voice!\u201d I loved that and I love \u201cher voice\u201d \u2013 one that is kind and giving, with desire to do her part. A juror gets to…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[6637,2408,3403,6638,6639,6640,6641,6642,6643,1642,2411],"class_list":["post-1062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-fruit-bearing","tag-fruit-inspector","tag-fruit-of-the-spirit","tag-galations-522","tag-judge-not-lest-you-be-judged","tag-judging","tag-known-by-our-fruit","tag-known-by-your-fruits","tag-love-joy-peace-patience","tag-matthew-71","tag-matthew-720"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1062"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1062\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6235,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1062\/revisions\/6235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}