Be fruitful!      A Daily Devotional for March 12, 2021 Re | Beza International Church

  Be fruitful!

    
A Daily Devotional for March 12, 2021

Read Colossians 1:10

From studying the genesis of human beings, we find that the first thing man heard from God was to be fruitful. All throughout the bible, we find that fruitfulness is mentioned several times for various dimensions. However, given that our life has in it multiple layers, fruitfulness can be relevant for each.

As believers, we all start with what we have been given. God’s word doesn’t tell us that we all start equal or have the same potential. However, it does make it clear that our maker expects fruitfulness from all of us.

Jesus said, “This is to my father’s glory, that you bear much fruit, showing yourselves to be my disciples.” Jn 15:8 

By observing nature we can understand that fruitfulness doesn’t come simply; rather the caretaker has to look after it properly. The book of proverbs paints a good picture of what happens in the absence of good stewardship; “I went past the field of a sluggard, past the vineyard of someone who has no sense; thorns had come up everywhere, the ground was covered with weeds, and the stone wall was in ruins.” Pr. 24:30

By the same token, the deposit in our lives has to be tended that it may be fruitful. When our minds are not made captive of the lord, the enemy sows many thoughts that take us away from fruitfulness.

In Genesis 49:22, we find that "Joseph is a fruitful vine, a fruitful vine near a spring, whose branches climb over a wall.”

Examining his life, we can see how he escaped unfruitfulness. His life seems both a victim of a family decision and a victim of the bosses’ decision. He could have allowed himself to wallow in passiveness and live depressed. If it was today, we wouldn’t even be surprised if he became suicidal; but yet Joseph chose to be with the Lord and served with all that he had.

I imagine his attitude was to do his best with what he had and depend on God for all the unproductive memories and uncertainties he may have; after all, he didn’t have clarity on Gods ultimate plan or time.

Joseph was not negligent; he was a good steward that the bible calls him a “fruitful and successful man.”


Life Application
What is holding me from being fruitful? Is it laziness? hurt? Ignorance? Am I neglecting the holy spirit?

Prayer
Lord I need you to be fruitful in my life