{Reflections}

Did you ever thought my friend about how we, 

our live, could be like an apple tree?        

I know it sound kind of weird, but I was thinking about that the other day.                                      

The tree could represent ourselves and the fruit which in this case are apples could represent the fruit that we should demonstrate in our life.                                                                                                                

 For example the fruit of the Spirit which is:                                                                                                                   

Love

To God and to human beings. An intense desire to please God, and to do good to mankind.  

                                                                                                  

                                                                                              Joy                                                                                                                                                                                                                      

   In the love of God; in the evidences of pardon; in communion with the Redeemer,

and in Hi service.

                                                                                                                                                                                   Peace                                 

 The calm, quiet, and order, which take place in the justified soul, instead of the doubts, fears, alarms, and dreadful forebodings, which every true penitent less or more feels, and must feel till the assurance of pardon brings peace and satisfaction to the mind. Peace is the first sensible fruit of the pardon of sin. 

                                             

Longsuffering

Long-mindedness, bearing with the frailties and provocations of others, from the consideration that God has borne long with ours; and that, if he had not, we should have been speedily consumed: bearing up also through all the troubles and difficulties of life without murmuring or repining; submitting cheerfully to every dispensation of God’s providence, and thus deriving benefit from every occurrence.

Gentleness

The same word which is translated “kindness” in 2 Cor 6:6                    

   The word means goodness, kindness, benignity; and is opposed to a harsh, crabbed, crooked temper. It is a disposition to be pleased; it is mildness of temper, calmness of spirit, an unruffled disposition, and a disposition to treat all with urbanity and politeness. This is one of the regular effects of the Spirit’s operations on the heart.  

       Goodness

The perpetual desire and sincere study, not only to abstain from every appearance of evil, but to do good to the bodies and souls of men to the utmost of our ability. But all this must spring from a good heart - a heart purified by the Spirit of God; and then, the tree being made good, the fruit must be good also.                  

                                                    

Faith

The word here may be used in the sense of fidelity, and may denote that the Christian will be a faithful man, a man faithful to his word and promises; a man who can be trusted or confided in. The Christian is faithful as a man; faithful as a neighbor, a friend, a father, a husband or a son.    

                                                                                                                

                                                         Meekness                                                                                                                  Mildness, indulgence toward the weak and erring, patient suffering of injuries without feeling a spirit of revenge, an even balance of all tempers and passions, the entire opposite to anger.        

                                                                                                                                      

    Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth. Mat 5:5                   

Definitions taken from E-Sword

Sometime somebody's tree can be empty, 

which at the end...

 could come to a BiG Question mark;

Do they really want to follow the Lord are they even really saved?

What we do, how we speak, how we act, how we dress,

the places we go,with whom we hang out with,

the music we listen to and 1001 other things can truly show to the world who we are. 

We should ask ourselves these questions:

What is MY testimony in this world?

Do I follow the crowd or follow the Lord?

Does the world accepts me like anybody else?

 Can I say ''Life is a vapor, BUT I’ll live forever!''

The things which proceed out of the mouth come forth from the heart. Mat 15:18