I am making up a fruit basket for some friends...as life goes on, I find I give less flowers and more fruit...reminds those in stress they need to eat as well as guard their strength through trying times...but also it reminds us of the Fruit of the Spirit...or at least it does me...
Galatians 5:22-23 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law.
Those sweet juicy cherries, grapes, apples, pears or whatever fruit is given are quickly eaten and relished...just like we so enjoy those people who exhibit love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self control....
I wouldn't want a basket of rotten, blackened, uneatable fruit which would only remind me of the lack of fruit of the Spirit..as in these following verses....
Galatians 5:19-21a the acts of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity and debauchery; idolatry and witchcraft; hatred, discord, jealousy, fits of rage, selfish ambition, dissensions, factions and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like....
What a huge contrast...but we see it everyday...wherever we go...the contrasts...
But, with fruit baskets with good fruit are reminders also that the families are so representative of the loved ones lives...the time they put into each member, the prayer, the love and nourishment either to the bodies or to the souls ...
We each want to be represented in a positive way...reaping the fruits of good labor...a good harvest ...and carried on and out in life...
Thank YOU for fruit baskets..the wonderful, delicious, juicy fruits that give us good health ...but even more so, the fruit of the Spirit...which shows the life of Christ to others ....that they would be drawn to YOU...
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