“You did not choose Me, but I chose you and appointed you
that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain.”
-JOHN 15:16
When
we allow the Holy Spirit to increase Christ, and when we allow the
Cross to
do its work of decreasing Self, the fruit will come forth in abundance.
This makes everything we experience worthwhile. What is the fruit of the
Spirit? It is the reward, the prize, the end result of all those
seasons of increasing and decreasing: the character and nature of Christ
reproduced in a person. It is the precious Seed finally coming into
maturity.
The
fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness,
goodness,
faith, meekness, self-control. Against such there is no law (Galatians
5:22,23). Fruit is not how much work we can accomplish or how many
things we can do for God. Fruit is, “How much of Christ can be seen in
me instead of me?” The fruit of the Spirit is found in the transformed
character of someone who walks with Jesus in the Difficult Path.
Source: "Embrace the Cross" by Chip
Brogden
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