Nov 6, 2020 … Fruitfulness in Christ

Berry Patch Devotions in 2020 - Day 311 

Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ...    Please take the time to take in song and lyrics from an anonymous worship group singing  … We See the Fruitful Harvest … joyfully singing of how we can expect to see fruitfulness in our lives when we live obediently in an abiding relationship with the Lord. 

Fruitful on the vine ... 

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Highlight Passage:  Isaiah 5:7 [ESV] ... 

7  For the vineyard of the Lord of host is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah are His pleasant planting and He looked for justice, but behold, bloodshed; for righteousness, but behold, an outcry! 

…   Isaiah cries out for God’s desire to see fruitfulness for His people … but the Lord will let the harvest go unfruitful when He sees disobedience, injustice and bloodshed.    

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Highlight Passage [Context]: …  Isaiah 5:1-7 [ESV] …  USE THIS LINK … 

… Isaiah’s picture of the fields going unfruitful when God sees disobedience amongst His people. 

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Reference Passage: …  Jesus 15:1-7 [ESV] … USE THIS LINK … 

…  Jesus shows His inner Disciples in the Upper Room that they will never be able to be fruitful in life without a deep/abiding relationship with Him.   

Reference Passage: …  Romans 1:18-32 [ESV] … USE THIS LINK … 

…  Jesus shows His inner Disciples in the Upper Room that they will never be able to be fruitful in life without a deep/abiding relationship with Him.   

My Devotional Journal: Today's Our Daily Bread author, Lisa M Samra, AT THIS LINK uses the word picture of the grapes in a vineyard going sour because of the way the vineyard was not properly tended.   

And this was the analogy that the Prophet Isaiah used in the OT (see highlight passage) to describe that God would allow His vineyard, i.e, God’s chosen people in Israel, become unproductive if He saw disobedience, injustice, and bloodshed amongst His people.  And we know from biblical history that’s exactly what happened to bring down Israel to Babylon.

And again in the NT, both Jesus, (see John 15:1-7), and the Apostle Paul in  (see Romans 1:18-32), warning God’s people, i.e., His Church, that He will let them become unfruitful if they disobey Him and turn to their own flesh and wicked ways.  But God, in both Isaiah’s imagery and thru Jesus in the NT, promises fruitfulness for those are willing to abide with the Lord. 

And it’s my prayer today that all reading here are among the remnant of those who are tending God’s fields by having a close and abiding relationship with our Lord, … the Keeper of God’s vineyard. 

My THANKFULNESS: ... Oh Abba Father, ... thank You, Lord, … for giving me an opportunity to work in Your vineyard. 

My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... I pray that all reading here will join me today to do all we can to be fruitful in tending to Your vineyard.   … Amen

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