Bearing Fruit in All Circumstances

“This is what the LORD says: ‘Cursed is the one who trusts in
man, who depends on flesh for his strength and whose heart turns away from the
LORD. He will be like a bush in the wastelands; he will not see prosperity when
it comes. He will dwell in the parched places of the desert, in a salt land
where no one lives. But blessed is the man who trusts in the LORD, whose
confidence is in him. He will be like a tree planted by the water that sends
out its roots by the stream. It does not fear when heat comes; its leaves are
always green. It has no worries in a year of drought and never fails to bear
fruit” (Jeremiah 17:5-8).

“Blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the
wicked or stand in the way of sinners or sit in the seat of mockers. But his
delight is in the law of the LORD, and on his law he meditates day and night.
He is like a tree planted by streams of water, which yields its fruit in season
and whose leaf does not wither. Whatever he does prospers. Not so the wicked!
They are like chaff that the wind blows away. Therefore the wicked will not
stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the assembly of the righteous. For the
LORD watches over the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked will
perish” (Psalm 1:1-6).

“The righteous will flourish like a palm tree, they will grow
like a cedar of Lebanon; planted in the house of the LORD, they will flourish
in the courts of our God. They will still bear fruit in old age, they will stay
fresh and green, proclaiming, ‘The LORD is upright; he is my Rock, and there is
no wickedness in him’” (Psalm 92:12-15).

“No good tree bears bad fruit, nor does a bad tree bear good
fruit. Each tree is recognized by its own fruit. People do not pick figs from
thornbushes, or grapes from briers” (Luke 6:43-44).

Ever since the Garden of Eden, there have been good fruit trees
and bad fruit trees. We are all fruit trees. These scriptures tell us how to
bear good fruit all of the time.

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