From Me is thy fruit found.
Hosea 14:8
"OUR fruit is found from our God as to union.
The fruit of the branch is directly traceable to the root.
Sever the connection, the branch dies, and no fruit is produced.
By virtue of our union with Christ we bring forth fruit.
Every bunch of grapes have been first in the root, it has passed through the stem, and flowed through the sap vessels, and fashioned itself externally into fruit, but it was first in the stem; so also every good work was first in Christ, and then is brought forth in us.
The fruit owes much to the root—that is essential to fruitfulness—but it owes very much also to external influences.
The gardener's sharp-edged knife promotes the fruitfulness of the tree, by thinning the clusters, and by cutting off superfluous shoots. So is it, Christian, with that pruning which the Lord gives to thee."
Charles Spurgeon
Hosea 14:8
"OUR fruit is found from our God as to union.
The fruit of the branch is directly traceable to the root.
Sever the connection, the branch dies, and no fruit is produced.
By virtue of our union with Christ we bring forth fruit.
Every bunch of grapes have been first in the root, it has passed through the stem, and flowed through the sap vessels, and fashioned itself externally into fruit, but it was first in the stem; so also every good work was first in Christ, and then is brought forth in us.
The fruit owes much to the root—that is essential to fruitfulness—but it owes very much also to external influences.
The gardener's sharp-edged knife promotes the fruitfulness of the tree, by thinning the clusters, and by cutting off superfluous shoots. So is it, Christian, with that pruning which the Lord gives to thee."
Charles Spurgeon
