Dear One,
The plants of all your tomorrows are certainly in the thought seeds and the seeds emanating from your mouth today.
What kind of crop do you want to harvest, the fruit of the flesh or the fruit of the Spirit?
You may think that that is a stupid question. Of course you want to harvest the fruit of the Spirit, the good things of life.
If you really want a bumper crop of fruit planted by the Spirit, you must plant seeds of love, joy, peace, patience, goodness, kindness, mercy and faith. Then you are guaranteed a harvest of the same.
Choices keep coming up in your life.
Temporary thoughts and words of strife and judgment are rooted in self justification rather than in tolerance, grace and mercy.
Self justification is the nature of satan. He continues to justify himself rather than justifying Me and My children. He is only interested in his own pride and self promotion.
My children are justified by the presence of My life within them and they are not eager to justify themselves by promoting their own anger, judgment and self promotion. Those things only bring the results of death to others and eventually death to themselves.
Humility is allowing Me to promote and justify you. Pride is promotion of yourself and it precedes a fall. Humble people are never consumed with thoughts of themselves. They are only conscious of the needs of others and are eager to meet those needs, thus fulfilling the ministry of Jesus. As He is, so are you in the world.
Love, God
Luke 16:15; Romans 4:17-25; Philippians 4:8; Matthew 12:37
The plants of all your tomorrows are certainly in the thought seeds and the seeds emanating from your mouth today.
What kind of crop do you want to harvest, the fruit of the flesh or the fruit of the Spirit?
You may think that that is a stupid question. Of course you want to harvest the fruit of the Spirit, the good things of life.
If you really want a bumper crop of fruit planted by the Spirit, you must plant seeds of love, joy, peace, patience, goodness, kindness, mercy and faith. Then you are guaranteed a harvest of the same.
Choices keep coming up in your life.
Temporary thoughts and words of strife and judgment are rooted in self justification rather than in tolerance, grace and mercy.
Self justification is the nature of satan. He continues to justify himself rather than justifying Me and My children. He is only interested in his own pride and self promotion.
My children are justified by the presence of My life within them and they are not eager to justify themselves by promoting their own anger, judgment and self promotion. Those things only bring the results of death to others and eventually death to themselves.
Humility is allowing Me to promote and justify you. Pride is promotion of yourself and it precedes a fall. Humble people are never consumed with thoughts of themselves. They are only conscious of the needs of others and are eager to meet those needs, thus fulfilling the ministry of Jesus. As He is, so are you in the world.
Love, God
Luke 16:15; Romans 4:17-25; Philippians 4:8; Matthew 12:37
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