Grounded...

What kind of fruit can you produce if your living in a desert?

How deep can your roots grow if your soil is dry and crumbling?

How long do you believe you can stand, if you stand alone?

God calls us to bear fruit: Galatians 5:22-26 The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law. Now those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. If we live by the Spirit, let us also walk by the Spirit. Let us not become boastful, challenging one another, envying one another.

God didn't say we could pick and choose which characteristics we would like to have; He refers to them at one, "The fruit of the Spirit is," singular! However, we cannot bear this fruit at all if we do not get ourselves planted firmly in good soil.

Jeremiah 17:5-6 says: Thus says the LORD, "Cursed is the man who trusts in mankind, and makes flesh his strength, and whose heart turns away from the LORD. "For he will be like a bush in the desert and will not see when prosperity comes, but will live in stony wastes in the wilderness, a land of salt without inhabitant."

Thankfully God didn't stop there...He went on to say in Jeremiah 17:7-8, "Blessed is the man who trusts in the LORD, and whose trust is the LORD. For he will be like a tree planted by the water, that extends its roots by a stream and will not fear when the heat comes; but its leaves will be green, and it will not be anxious in a year of

drought nor cease to yield fruit."

Luckily we aren't like trees and we have a choice where we are planted! We can choose to plant our roots in the desert or in the lushes green!

Where are YOU CHOOSING to plant your roots??

Who are you surrounding yourself with, people who will lead you to refreshing water or who will leave you dry in the desert?

Humans are like miracle grow.

We can encourage each other and lift each other up, but unless we are planted in good soil, we'll shrivel up to nothing...

A plant in bad soil will still die, no matter the amount of miracle grow you pour on it!