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FRUIT THAT WILL LAST

Read: John 15:16-17

Each of us wants to be significant, we want our lives to have meaning and purpose, we want to live our lives in such a way that we will hear the words we all want to hear from our Lord “well done, good and faithful servant!” (Matthew 25:21)

When we are considering how we should spend our time, what our priorities should be, or what God is calling us to do, have we really considered that investing in the lives of others, our family, our friends, our neighbors, or anyone we come in contact with, could be our highest calling?  Jesus said to his disciples “You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you to go and bear fruit-fruit that will last.  Then the Father will give you whatever you ask in my name.  This is my command: love each other.” (John 15:16-17)

When we think about bearing fruit that will last, it is worth remembering that all of us are immortal beings.  Christian author C. S. Lewis said that there are no ordinary people.  In his book “The Weight of Glory” Lewis wrote “It is a serious thing to live in a society of possible gods and goddesses, to remember that the dullest and most uninteresting people you can talk to may one day be a creature which, if you saw it now, you would be strongly tempted to worship, or else a horror and a corruption such as you now meet, if at all, only in a nightmare.  All day long we are, in some degree, helping each other to one or other of these destinations.”

When we think of people in this way, we can realize that our interactions with others can have eternal significance, and our calling to “bear fruit that will last” can be seen in a new light.

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