"Fruitfulness" - October 5, 2014 Sunday Readings
Channel: St. Jerome Emiliani Bible Study Group
Date: 2014-10-05

The fruitfulness at issue doesn’t come from our work. In both the stories, the owner of the vineyard, who is God, plants the vines, spades the soil, removes the stones, and protects the vineyard. If the vines bear fruit, it is because God worked so hard at the vineyard.

So also our fruitfulness comes not from our own work, but from the work of God’s spirit in us.

What God is looking for in us, then, is the fruits of the Spirit. And these are love, joy, peace, patience and long-suffering.

God has planted himself deep within us in the indwelling Holy Spirit. No lack of success in work, no lack of work itself, can keep us from responding to him with love and joy and the rest.
And these are what make us fruitful for the Lord. 

God sent his only son into the trap of human life, not because life is perfect, but because love is.
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