You're a tree replanted in Eden bearing fresh fruit every month.
Psalm 1, The Message
Each of us are created to be unique and different. God planned for each of us to be like trees planted in the Garden of Eden bearing fresh fruit every month. However, when Adam and Eve ate the forbidden fruit that all changed. Every person born thereafter was the same. We became diseased trees bearing sinful fruit.
God is not to be outsmarted. He had a plan to save us, his diseased trees, before He ever created this world. Jesus, Son of God, released His will to the Father in a garden, then, released His life for us, on a tree. How marvelous! How amazing! Then wonder of wonders His death became life. Death had no hold on Him, Jesus, Son of God, Tree of Life!
Now, according to God's plan, we who believe in Christ Jesus, are again unique. We each, through Him, blossom bearing good fruit, different fruit. But hasn't God called us to be one? One body, in Him, united in Him? Yes, we are each different trees, bearing different fruit, in one garden. Or another way to describe this would be to say we are all unique puzzle pieces fitting together to create one puzzle. How puzzling!
I pray today that I would trust through the power of the Spirit of Christ to bear fruit for Him that would be nutritious for the whole Body of Christ, that is, the Church.
To God be the Glory! Amen
Psalm 1, The Message
Each of us are created to be unique and different. God planned for each of us to be like trees planted in the Garden of Eden bearing fresh fruit every month. However, when Adam and Eve ate the forbidden fruit that all changed. Every person born thereafter was the same. We became diseased trees bearing sinful fruit.
God is not to be outsmarted. He had a plan to save us, his diseased trees, before He ever created this world. Jesus, Son of God, released His will to the Father in a garden, then, released His life for us, on a tree. How marvelous! How amazing! Then wonder of wonders His death became life. Death had no hold on Him, Jesus, Son of God, Tree of Life!
Now, according to God's plan, we who believe in Christ Jesus, are again unique. We each, through Him, blossom bearing good fruit, different fruit. But hasn't God called us to be one? One body, in Him, united in Him? Yes, we are each different trees, bearing different fruit, in one garden. Or another way to describe this would be to say we are all unique puzzle pieces fitting together to create one puzzle. How puzzling!
I pray today that I would trust through the power of the Spirit of Christ to bear fruit for Him that would be nutritious for the whole Body of Christ, that is, the Church.
To God be the Glory! Amen
