Lasting Fruit

What's life in God all about anyways? So many have made it about being famous with big ministries, or seeking to be well known for a particular gifting or trait. Here in America the lines get a bit fuzzy. There are all kinds of ways to walk out a life of devotion and abandonment to Jesus. The one way that goes against the flow of our human nature and tendency, hiddenness. Most of the time we want to be noticed and complimented for the task performed, how well we led worship or preached. We are a culture of exalting man for what he has accomplished or what particular set of gifting he might have. It's okay to honor someone or to bless them when they are walking in their gifting. This is good and should be done. The key though is humility and cultivating a heart and attitude that would rather remain "hidden" than be known for something we did or accomplished. Our glory comes from being sons and daughters and walking the way Jesus himself did. Taking up our cross and following him daily. This is the fruit that will last. Spending time in the quiet and secret place. Knowing and listening to His voice. Loving our neighbor as ourselves. Doing good deeds and not letting your right hand know what the left is doing.

...to be continued.