Status Updates From Fruitful: Cultivating a Spi...

“In the midst of the drought, the tree has enough. Its roots have traveled underground, finding a path to a source that’s independent of outward circumstances. When there’s no rain, there’s still nourishment. When there’s drought, there’s still fruit.”

“One facet of biblical patience is steadfastness or endurance… Patience is faithfulness in difficult circumstances; it’s continuing to follow Christ even when things are hard.”

I don’t always think of patience this way!

“The gospel causes us to stop viewing people as pawns to manipulate to serve our own needs and to start seeing them as image bearers whom we can love and serve. True love is too fixated on Jesus to be filled with thoughts of self”

From day 5 “let love be genuine”. Trying to revisit this paragraph often as I read through!