Friday's Challenge on Posted by Rebekah

Every Friday @ 12:30pm (CST), you can hear a weekly challenge from me on Faith Music Radio.  My podcast is called Posted by Rebekah. You can listen online HERE or download the free app for your smartphone.  I would love for you to join us, listen and take the challenge!

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Here is today's podcast in blog post form. :)

So this spring, I decided to try to plant two pumpkin plants.  One was regular size and was supposed to be the mini size pumpkins.  I was so excited…I got them home and went to plant them and realized one plant had a zucchini label on it!  I was like…oh well!  I guess we will have zucchini and pumpkin this year. 

As the weeks went along, the plants grew and started to bloom these orange flowers.  Then I was really confused!  Because the flowers and the leaves on these plants looked identical!  Oh my goodness.  So then I changed my mind and thought…ok, maybe I did get two pumpkin plants after all!  Geez, you would think for an Ohio girl that grew up in the country, you would think I could figure this out.  Ha!

So eventually, the flowers started turning into fruit – zucchini and pumpkins that is!  You see, it wasn’t until the actual fruit of the plant appeared that I could tell the true identity of the plant.  And walah!  A zucchini all along.

How is your fruit coming along?  As a Christian, we are supposed to show fruit in our lives.  My daughter asked me the other day…”Mommy, how do you know if someone is a Christian or not?”  I replied, “Well, we can’t know 100% sure.  Only God truly knows that and their heart.  But we can observe if their life demonstrates fruit.”  I asked her to name the fruit of the Spirit.  Love, joy, peace, long suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness and temperance.  “These,” I said, “are a good way to see if God is in our life.”

So the question for you listening – do others look at you and wonder, “Hmm, I wonder if they are a Christian?”  Or can they observe your life and see the fruit of the Spirit growing all over you?

So today’s challenge is…Don’t just be a plant in this life that people have to guess what you are.  Be a plant that produces fruit for all those to see and say…what a productive servant of Christ!

Will you take the challenge?