FERTILE SOIL

FERTILE SOIL

Bearing fruit is hearing the word and understanding it. To absorb its meaning and doing it.

The evidence of a growing relationship with God is the fruit. "The fruit is simply harvested off."  In other words, what a person says, does, and is, isn't something that has to be forced or coerced. Going about doing good is not something driven by an external force or a desire to earn recognition or salvation. Rather, it is an intrinsic force that is driven by the Spirit of God, which has been planted in the heart and allowed and encouraged to grow, to mature, and to bear fruit.

 "The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control."