Seize the Moment – Day 655

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01
Jan '22

Seize the Moment – Day 655

Posted on Jan 1, 2022 by Jerry Ingalls in Devotions, General |

01
Jan '22

Good Fruit in the New Year!

Deuteronomy 29

 

Good morning! This is Pastor Jerry Ingalls from New Castle First Baptist Church and today is Saturday, January 1, 2022. Happy New Year! May the Lord bless you in 2022!

 

It is my deepest prayer for you in 2022 that you will manifest the good fruit of your relationship with Jesus Christ! This has always been God’s hope for His people. We are His image bearers! Deuteronomy 29:14-18 taught His people about the importance of staying rooted in God’s covenant:

 

Now not with you alone am I making this covenant and this oath, but both with those who stand here with us today in the presence of the Lord our God and with those who are not with us here today …; so that there will not be among you a man or woman, or family or tribe, whose heart turns away today from the Lord our God, to go and serve the gods of those nations; that there will not be among you a root bearing poisonous fruit and wormwood.

 

Hebrews 12:11 and 15 contrasts the fruit of those who are not and those who are rooted in God’s grace:
 
“All discipline for the moment seems not to be joyful, but sorrowful; yet to those who have been trained by it, afterwards it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness. … See to it that no one comes short of the grace of God; that no root of bitterness springing up causes trouble, and by it many be defiled.”

 

The evidence of your relationship with God is found in either the peaceful fruit of righteousness or the poisonous fruit of a bitter root. As Jesus Christ said in Matthew 7:20, “So then, you will know them by their fruits.”

 

Seize the moment and bear the good fruit of abiding in the vine of a personal relationship with Jesus Christ (John 15:1-16). May your life make evidence the fruit of the Holy Spirit in 2022: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control (Galatians 5:22-23)!

 

Happy New Year and God bless you!

 
 
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