0228 以你生命果子彰显我
我是那结果子的葡萄树，你是我的枝子，充满了我的生命。我呼召你为我父的荣耀结果子；这果子不是出于宗教上的努力，也不是出于人意的制造，而是出于我圣灵的工作。我呼召你，藉着我的灵在你生命中所结的果子来反射我。
当你将柔软的心献给我，我圣灵的大能就要流经你。离了我，你所作的一切都是无用的；只有在你被我的灵充满时，你的善行才充满能力。要被我的灵充满，以至于溢出，你的生命就成为生命树上的枝子。
要被人知道你在神面前是个温柔的人。我不要你只是“正确”，我要你多结果子——充满品格与内心的纯洁。当你行在我圣灵的良善与恩慈中，真正的美丽就进入你的灵魂。别人会看见你美好的生命，并知那是我在用恩典充满你。
“因此，你必须常常与我保持生命的联合，因为我也常与你保持生命的联合。正如枝子若从葡萄树上被剪断，就不能结果子；同样，除非你的生命活在与我的生命亲密相连中，否则你的生命将不结果子。我是那发芽生长的葡萄树，你们是我的枝子。当你们活在与我联合中，以我为你们的源头时，果实就会从你们里面涌流出来——但当你们与我分离而活时，你们就毫无能力。”——约翰福音 15:4-5
0228 Reflect me with your fruit.
I am the Fruit-Bearing Vine, and you are my branch, filled with my life. I call you to bear fruit for the glory of my Father. This fruit is produced not by religious striving or human manufacture, but by the workings of my Spirit. I call you to reflect me with the fruit that my Spirit produces through you.
The great strength of my Spirit will flow through you as you offer me your tender heart. Apart from me, your works are powerless. Your good deeds are only filled with power to the degree that you are filled with my Spirit. Be saturated to overflowing with my Spirit, and your very life will be a branch upon the Tree of Lite.
Be known as a person of tenderness before God. I don’t want you to be correct; I want you to be fruitful-overflowing with character and purity of heart. True beauty will enter your soul as you walk in the kindness and love of my Spirit. Others will see your beautiful life and know that it is me who is filling you with grace.
“So you must remain in life-union with me, for I remain in life-union with you. For as a branch severed from the vine will not bear fruit, so your life will be fruitless unless you live your life intimately joined to mine. I am the sprouting vine and you’re my branches. As you live in union with me as your source, fruitfulness will stream from within you-but when you live separated from me you are powerless.” — JOHN 15:4-5