STILL BEARING FRUIT

My daughter Melissa accepted God’s gift of salvation at a young age. But she never saw herself as some great Christian who could change lives. She was just trying to live as God would want her to.
Yet, in 2002 when He welcomed her into heaven when she was just seventeen, her trust in Jesus and her faithful life stood on their own. No advance warning. No time to make things right with others. No new opportunities to “bear much fruit” (JOHN 15:8) or, in other words, live like
Jesus.

Melissa tried to live in a way that was pleasing to God—and her life is still making an impact, even today. Just recently I heard of someone who trusted Jesus as Saviour at a sports camp after a speaker shared Melissa’s story.

Are we living to please God? We don’t know when it will be time for us to go to heaven, His time. Let’s live every day remembering that it could be our last. Let’s try to bear fruit, loving others like Jesus does, and trust what happens next to God.

To pray about . . .

Thank You, Father, that You are using my life in ways I could never imagine. Thank You that in heaven I will find out all the ways You impacted others with Your love through me.

LET’S LIVE TO BEAR FRUIT TODAY; WE DON’T
KNOW IF THERE WILL BE A TOMORROW.

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