Luke 3:1-14

Life After Baptism

8Produce fruit in keeping with repentance. And do not begin to say to yourselves, 'We have Abraham as our father.' For I tell you that out of these stones God can raise up children for Abraham. 9The axe is already at the root of the trees, and every tree that does not produce good fruit will be cut down and thrown into the fire."


We are sometimes way to absorbed with all the worries and stress that can occur in our lives. It may even get to the point where that's all we think about. We conform to the world. We get sucked in to all the leisures and sins in life. Sometimes we lose focus on who we should be focused on; God (not us).

John is asking us to prepare the way for the Lord. We should, as children of God, be living our life for him and not for this world, or even ourselves. The question that arises, "Are we living out our baptismal calling?" I think we know what that calling is, right?

Live your life out for God. All that we do, we do it for God. Whether we eat, sing, work, pray, study, all things in our lives should be and is for our God.

I pray that we focus on the righteousness of God and not our self-righteousness. I pray that we bear the Good Fruit to everybody and everything we come in contact, and in that we also bear the Fruit of the Spirit. Through consistent acts of worship in our daily lives, I believe that we can grow beautifully individually and as a group in our Lord's eyes. I pray that we lift each other up in prayer and encourage each other with every passing day.

Discipline and Focus and Integrity.

For True.