How The Work You Do Today Can Last Forever
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It has been foggy here for endless days. Looking out the window, most days I can't even see as much as you can see in the picture above. The temperature hovers at freezing, or below, while I shiver. I need sun. I start dying when I can't see the sun, the strong pull drags me down faster the gravity. This week I knew I was in trouble by the weekend. Nothing tasted good. By Tuesday I was crying. Not even my full spectrum light was helping. Now I know why all those snowbirds go to Arizona in the winter. I'm ready to go with them, and I'm not retired. Talking with some friends about it did help some. Yesterday was a tear free day. But I needed sun!
The little Red Haven peach tree has grown up. This year it has produced enough juicy red globes to fill almost 30 quart bags for the freezer. It is really amazing what can happen with time and growth. The fruit is sweet.
I wonder if my life is producing any fruit. God's purpose for my life is to "Bear much fruit." John 15:8. I have had many years of receiving nourishment for God's word, but is the effect seen in my thoughts, words and actions?"Let your love go out for those things that Jesus loved, and withheld from thoseThat is bearing more fruit every day. And if I want to do just that, what should I do? Think of God and heaven every day.
things that will give no strength to right impulse. With determined energy seek to learn, and to improve the character every day. You much have firmness of purpose to take yourself in hand and be what you know God would be pleased to have you. . . Thoughts of God and heaven are ennobling." Ellen White 1893

"...Look to Christ. Let the mind dwell upon His love, upon the beauty, the perfection of His character. Christ in His self-denal, Christ in His humiliation, Christ in His purity and holiness, Christ in His matchless love - - this is the subject for the soul's contemplation. It is by loving Him, copying Him, depending wholly upon Him that you are transformed into His likeness." Steps to Christ, p. 71Good fruit appears in our life as a result of dwelling (camping out) on His love, and beauty, His good character. It transforms us. It is transforming me.