If you have been reading my blog posts for awhile, you probably remember me referencing the “Fruit Store” on a few of my older posts.
As each of us continues working towards those goals we’ve set for 2017, I think it’s a good time to revisit the Fruit Store.

When I talk about the Fruit Store, I’m talking about those things that are within each of you becasue of the Spirit within each of you.
Yes each one of you has the fruits of love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control within you.
I know there are times when you don’t feel these things within you, but they are there.
So now that you know they are there, how do you call on them each and every day?

You call on them by living a life guided by the Spirit within you, not one guided by the outside world around you.
You have to go to your internal Fruit Store each and every day, several times a day.

When someone cuts you off in traffic and you want to just let them have it, go to the Fruit Store and take a bite of kindness.
When the political discussion starts to get heated, go to the Fruit Store and take a bite of peace.
Whe you feel like going back to something you’ve left in the past because it wasn’t good for you, go to the Fruit Store and take a bite of self-control.
When you see someone in need and you know that you have the means to help them, go to the Fruit Store and take a bite of kindness.
When you are working hard but the business isn’t growing yet, go to the Fruit Store and take a bite of patience.

You have the fruits within you to live out each and every day the way God intends you to.
Each of us makes a decision, every moment of every day, to either go to our internal Fruit Store or let the outside world decide our actions.
What will you decide today?

Truth In Love! ~ Chuck