Comments on: I WOULD SHOW YOU MY FRUIT, BUT ALL I HAVE ARE LEAVES… http://freshairpoetry.com/2009/01/19/i-would-show-you-my-fruit-but-all-i-have-are-leaves/ Mon, 30 Jan 2012 21:52:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Mark Hoover http://freshairpoetry.com/2009/01/19/i-would-show-you-my-fruit-but-all-i-have-are-leaves/comment-page-1/#comment-1307 Mark Hoover Tue, 20 Jan 2009 17:11:18 +0000 http://freshairpoetry.com/?p=290#comment-1307 The goal of fruit is to feed someone else - not ourselves. Our faith produces the fruit that feeds others. We focus so much on our own nutrition that we forget others. There are people that are hungrier then we are. I want to be a fruitstand! mgh The goal of fruit is to feed someone else – not ourselves. Our faith produces the fruit that feeds others. We focus so much on our own nutrition that we forget others. There are people that are hungrier then we are.

I want to be a fruitstand!
mgh

]]> By: Voodoochick http://freshairpoetry.com/2009/01/19/i-would-show-you-my-fruit-but-all-i-have-are-leaves/comment-page-1/#comment-1305 Voodoochick Tue, 20 Jan 2009 02:41:20 +0000 http://freshairpoetry.com/?p=290#comment-1305 I like Spurgeon's interpretation which I will abridge here, "What a lesson this is to nations who make a loud profession of religion(He references Israel here, but I think more of our own nation.)yet fail to exhibit righteousness; and are adorned by the leafage of civilization with art, progress and religion but there is no inner life of godliness and no fruit of righteousness. What a lesson this is to churches which stand prominent in numbers and influence, but faith, love and holiness have not been maintained..But I do not want you to consider it only in the gross, in its relation to nations and churches; but my heart's desire is that we may learn the lesson in detail, and take it home each one to his own heart." I could go on, but this isn't my blog. I like Spurgeon’s interpretation which I will abridge here, “What a lesson this is to nations who make a loud profession of religion(He references Israel here, but I think more of our own nation.)yet fail to exhibit righteousness; and are adorned by the leafage of civilization with art, progress and religion but there is no inner life of godliness and no fruit of righteousness. What a lesson this is to churches which stand prominent in numbers and influence, but faith, love and holiness have not been maintained..But I do not want you to consider it only in the gross, in its relation to nations and churches; but my heart’s desire is that we may learn the lesson in detail, and take it home each one to his own heart.”

I could go on, but this isn’t my blog.

]]> By: Robin http://freshairpoetry.com/2009/01/19/i-would-show-you-my-fruit-but-all-i-have-are-leaves/comment-page-1/#comment-1304 Robin Tue, 20 Jan 2009 02:23:37 +0000 http://freshairpoetry.com/?p=290#comment-1304 This morning this verse made me realize what a baby Christian I still am. Today was the first time I read it and caught the significance of the absence of fruit. Seriously blew through this passage every time thinking it odd for Jesus to get so upset at a tree. My tree definitely could use some root stimulator! Not too proud of its current state! This morning this verse made me realize what a baby Christian I still am. Today was the first time I read it and caught the significance of the absence of fruit. Seriously blew through this passage every time thinking it odd for Jesus to get so upset at a tree.
My tree definitely could use some root stimulator! Not too proud of its current state!

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