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Morning and Evening

November 13, Morning

C. H. Spurgeon · Modern retelling

"The branch cannot bear fruit of itself." — John 15:4 · KJV

How did you begin to bear fruit? It was when you came to Jesus and cast yourself on His great atonement, and rested on His finished righteousness. Ah, what fruit you had then! Do you remember those early days? Then indeed the vine flourished, the tender grape appeared, the pomegranates budded, and the beds of spices gave forth their fragrance. Have you declined since then? If you have, we charge you to remember that time of love, and repent, and do your first works. Be most in those exercises which you have proved by experience to draw you nearest to Christ, because it is from Him that all your fruit proceeds. Any holy exercise that brings you to Him will help you to bear fruit. The sun, no doubt, is a great worker in fruit-creating among the trees of the orchard; and Jesus is still more so among the trees of His garden of grace. When have you been most fruitless? Has it not been when you lived farthest from the Lord Jesus Christ — when you slackened in prayer, when you departed from the simplicity of your faith, when your graces engrossed your attention instead of your Lord, when you said, "My mountain standeth firm; I shall never be moved," and forgot where your strength dwells? Has it not been then that your fruit ceased? Some of us have been taught, by terrible humblings of heart before the Lord, that we have nothing apart from Christ; and when we have seen the utter barrenness and death of all creature power, we have cried in anguish, "From Him all my fruit must be found, for no fruit can ever come from me." We are taught by past experience that the more simply we depend on the grace of God in Christ, and wait on the Holy Spirit, the more we shall bring forth fruit unto God. Oh, to trust Jesus for fruit, as well as for life!