He brings gifts into our lives, much the same way that fruit appears in an orchard -- things like affection for others.
Galatians 5:22, The Message
"Fruits are not something made, manufactured or engineered. ... They are the results of a life of faith created by God.
The person who lives a life of faith finds fruits appearing in unlikely places at unanticipated times. That is, we find that there is far more to our lives than we bring to them. Fruit is the appropriate metaphor. We do not produce it by our own effort. We do not purchase it from another. It is not a reward for doing good deeds, like a merit badge, a gold metal, a blue ribbon. Fruits are simply there. Sometimes we experience them in another, sometimes in ourselves."
Traveling Light
Fruits of Faith, God's Message for Each Day by Eugene Peterson.
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