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Edition 10: Faith

“Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self." -Cyril Connolly

I hope you are enjoying my blogs of Lessons and Learnings. I started this website to help me learn to write more effectively, share some of my learnings, and in some way “force” myself into the topics of family, self-improvement, finance, and faith. Of course, I have some passion for these topics. If not, I would not have started a website with the vision that one day I will put some of this website content into a book. Of these topics, I feel the least qualified to speak on Faith. Still, Faith is on my list of topics and true to the cause of putting something out there for anyone and all to read, I wanted to stay dedicated to my topics. Of course, it helps me stay dedicated to trying to learn and practice more of my Christian Faith too.

I feel fortunate that my family and especially my kids are dedicated to the Christian Faith. If I had not grown up in a Christian family, I cannot predict which religion that I might “practice”. My kids might say the same. For whatever reason, my family and now my kids are Christians. I might even conclude that my kids seem to read and study the Bible and Christian Faith more than my wife and I. I am proud and happy for them as we all continue to grow in our Faith.

During one of my family conversations about my website, I mentioned that my next Edition is on Faith. My daughter had just listened to a podcast (check it out in my Podcasts on this website) about abiding in Christ. Also, I had just listened to something about the “root” and “fruit”. The root represents the condition in one’s heart and a spiritual foundation. The fruit represents one’s actions, character, and visible results of one’s faith.

Although, I struggled to fully understand the meaning of abiding in Christ, it resonated with me and so did the thought around strong roots bearing good fruits.

These are some of my take aways and they might help you too.

For me, the root is a lesson and reminder to surround myself with good people who share some of my same values. Faith will help me bear good fruit. Good people help me develop good roots.

Surrounding myself with good people, is like they are my fertilizer and foster my growth. I need to accept coaching, get feedback, practice, have some patience, and grow a little bit each day to be stronger. My Christian Faith and good people can be my fertilizer for producing strong roots and then fruit.

A tree with deep roots can survive drought, storms, and other potential dangers through these tough times. If I have strong roots, I can handle a lot of things. If my roots are shallow and unhealthy, I cannot. Therefore, spending time on learning more about my Faith, abiding in Christ, and admitting that without Jesus, I can do nothing, puts me in a state of improvement and ease too knowing that Jesus is always there for me.

Following are some passages from the Bible that I wanted to share. Also, please check out my archived Edition 6 - Lessons and Learnings about Faith and the Commandments.

For me, these are good lessons and reminders that to be strong I need to have strong core values, adhere to them, and trust in my Lord Jesus Christ who is always there with me and can guide me.

11 Bible Verses About Bearing Fruit from: cara-ray.com for more check out 20 Bible Verses About Bearing Fruit

1. John 15:5-8 (ESV)
I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing. If anyone does not abide in me he is thrown away like a branch and withers; and the branches are gathered, thrown into the fire, and burned. If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you. By this my Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit and so prove to be my disciples.

2. Matthew 3:10 (ESV)
Even now the axe is laid to the root of the trees. Every tree therefore that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.

3. Galatians 5:22-23 (ESV)
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things, there is no law.

4. Matthew 12:33-34 (ESV)
Either make the tree good and its fruit good, or make the tree bad and its fruit bad, for the tree is known by its fruit. You brood of vipers! How can you speak good, when you are evil? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.

5. Mathew 13:22-23 (ESV)
As for what was sown among thorns, this is the one who hears the word, but the cares of the world and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word, and it proves unfruitful. As for what was sown on good soil, this is the one who hears the word and understands it. He indeed bears fruit and yields, in one case a hundredfold, in another sixty, and in another thirty.”

6. Luke 6:43-44 (ESV)
For no good tree bears bad fruit, nor again does a bad tree bear good fruit, for each tree is known by its own fruit. For figs are not gathered from thornbushes, nor are grapes picked from a bramble bush.

7. Luke 13:6-9 (ESV)
And he told this parable: “A man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard, and he came seeking fruit on it and found none. And he said to the vinedresser, ‘Look, for three years now I have come seeking fruit on this fig tree, and I find none. Cut it down. Why should it use up the ground?’ And he answered him, ‘Sir, let it alone this year also, until I dig around it and put on manure. Then if it should bear fruit next year, well and good; but if not, you can cut it down.’

8. Genesis 1:22 (ESV)
And God blessed them, saying, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth.”

9. Colossians 1:10 (ESV)
so as to walk in a manner worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing to him: bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God;

10. Psalm 1:1-3 (ESV)
Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the wicked, nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of scoffers; but his delight is in the law of the Lord, and on his law, he meditates day and night. He is like a tree planted by streams of water that yields its fruit in its season, and its leaf does not wither. In all that he does, he prospers.

11. Hebrews 12:11 (ESV)
For the moment all discipline seems painful rather than pleasant, but later it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.

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