All the students seem to have settled into this term so nicely despite some of the CRAZY weather we’ve been having. In our staff worship over the past few weeks, we have been looking at Jesus’s sermon on the mount. Specifically, Matthew 7:15-20 where Jesus talks about trees, fruit and people?

Jesus shares that there will be many people who say that they follow Christ or believe in Him. And many people may say they are good people and do good deeds, But Jesus warns that like a tree bears fruit, people bear actions. A bad tree, one that is perhaps poisoned, or sick cannot bear healthy good fruit. And a good healthy tree doesn’t bear rotten sickly fruit. For if the health of the tree is good, then it’s easy to predict that healthy fruit is on the way.

Jesus uses this analogy to describe people and their actions. Those who say they believe in Christ but do evil, do not truly believe in Christ. The bad fruit represents our actions. The entire sermon on the mount shares the idea that our actions alone are not may get us into heaven, but they sure are a good marker as to weather or not you’re on the right track. If you have a good and pure heart, your actions will reflect that, and if you have hatred or evil in your heart, then your actions will be a mirror that reflects that. Let us strive to constantly bear good fruit. The key is by focusing on our own core, our own beliefs. And from that, good fruit come.