Fruits of your labor never tasted so good!
Good successful relationships and triumphant personal aspirations require persistence, consistence, and often tough and rigid earnest work. Our finer ambitions may also take some time to come to fruition. It’s rare to say that first-class, good quality, respectable, decent and moral things happens overnight.
Our desires, hopes, and dreams take more effort than that of just one’s self. We might need a group, band, panel, squad, lineup, a bunch or a party to get the job done.
Parents work with their children throughout a child’s adolescence to provide lasting life qualities, where the positive end result would be to teach God loving attributes, self-worth, honorable and honest characteristics, trustworthiness, and distinctive traits that make one capable of love of others and self.
A growing bank account requires a combination of an investor with money, time to bear interest and a bank to hold the funds.
It is a team effort for employers and employees to work together to provide a service to a customer and together they attain targeted goals whether it be a production quota, a filing with the court, a hot meal for seniors, or an oil change.
A coach and assistants work together with team players over the course of the season and/or year to strategize for winning games.
In a competition of tug of war each team uses their strength and endurance that has been acquired over time to work toward a victory.
A gardener consistently cares for a garden with water and food, and trims the dead branches from plants, flowers and fruit trees so that they will grow, yield more blooms and bear more fruit.
To successfully reach a goal, provide good service, or increase in faith, we must honestly look to ourselves and see where we have become dead. None are blind, for all have a holy heart that feels and sees.
The combination of minds in sync, strengths of many individuals, faith and talent on various levels, and love of scores of hearts ensure that a harmonious collaboration will carry them not only to their ultimate goal, but to a level beyond hope, probability, anticipation and sometimes even belief.
Jesus reminds us that apart from him we can do nothing. He came to remove our dead branches. We have already been cleansed by the words he has spoken. If you have suffered through a drought, or perhaps your shears have become dull, fill your bucket with water and sharpen your tools so that your garden may flourish once again.
In prayer everyday, as one, unite and elevate your heart and mind to the heights of God, so that your basket may always be overflowing with sweet abundant fruit and your delicate glass vase will be impeccably arranged with an array of beautiful flowers for eternity.
Fruits of your labor never tasted so good! Enjoy your harvest!
John 15:1-8
“I am the true vine, and my Father is the vine-grower. He removes every branch in me that bears no fruit. Every branch that bears fruit he prunes to make it bear more fruit. You have already been cleansed by the word that I have spoken to you. Abide in me as I abide in you. Just as the branch cannot bear fruit by itself unless it abides in the vine, neither can you unless you abide in me. I am the vine, you are the branches. Those who abide in me and I in them bear much fruit, because apart from me you can do nothing. Whoever does not abide in me is thrown away like a branch and withers; such branches are gathered, thrown into the fire, and burned. If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask for whatever you wish, and it will be done for you. My Father is glorified by this, that you bear much fruit and become my disciples.”
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