Grace is effortless living. This God
quality of life is just what happens by accident (fruit) when we
believe and awaken to who we are sons of God. Yes! Fruit happens,
but it is NEVER about the fruit, it 100% about soaking up the
nutrients (love) from the one in whom we are planted. Fruit comes
from resting in the vine. But it is about the vine....not the fruit.
To focus on the fruit is to glory in self efforts and take your eyes
off the vine.
Good fruit in a person's life is
birthed from intimacy with the bridegroom. The focus is on the
intimacy....not to bear fruit. Bearing fruit apart from that is
still a dead work even if the fruit looks good. This is very
dangerous and why we must be lead by the Spirit. Eve thought the
fruit of the knowledge of good and evil looked good too. I'm sure
Ishmael was a handsome young lad. God said to cast out his mother
and her son (fruit) simply because it came by works of the flesh. If
God is not the father, he is not interested in how good the fruit
(a.k.a. behavior) is. Grace is living by the Spirit.
Many have abused the principal of “If
you are in grace then you will ____” (speaking of the fruit of
grace.) While it is true that grace produces fruit of life in a
person, most of the time I have heard it in a form of manipulation to
get you to live right. Any way of thinking implying right verses
wrong is eating the fruit of the Tree of the knowledge of good and
evil. Words like that are satanic. “If you are the son of God,
then turn this stone into bread.” Grace will never imply that you
must prove you are in grace. That is like proving I am a human.
Either I am or I am not.
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