A Genuinely Fruitful Life Is Seen in How You Do What You Do | Word First

how do I know if my life is is being fruitful how do I know if I'm living the Christian Life what does that look like and it can be really tempting to think maybe that means I teach thousands of people maybe I share the gospel with hundreds of people and tell them about Jesus and there are lots of things that could be considered good works and that's for sure part of um the fruit of our Salvation Ephesians tells us that we've been saved by faith but we're actually going to perform these good works that were prepared in advance for us so seeing change in our life is part of a fruitful life but I think one thing that's often neglected is it's not just what we do it's the way we do it um so we're told in Galatians that the fruit of the spirit is love joy peace patience kindness it lists out this whole list of what it looks like to walk by the spirit and none of them are kind of things that you check off on your check off list it's like oh I shared the gospel with 50 people it's not like that it's actually the way I've done it so I could be doing a lot of really good things and I could be really mean I could be really angry I could be really unkind and I could be looking like oh but I'm so fruitful in the Kingdom I'm doing all of this but the spirit is our guide that when he's doing the fruit bearing it's going to look a particular way and how we do it so we want to evaluate not just am I doing good things that shine Christ to the world but how am I doing them when I'm doing them