Thoughts for another day

Aug. 12, 2013.

Today's verse: Lk. 6:45. A good man out of the good treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is good; and an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is evil: for of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaketh. (KJV)

(Pls. read the above before you read further.  Thanks)

Goodness flows out of goodness and evil out of evil: this is the message for us today, amplified by Jesus Christ, the Omniscient and He gives us this Scripture to say, no matter what a person seems to be, if he is good, then goodness comes out of him because inside of him is the treasure of goodness; so only goodness can flow out because a man can only provide on the outside what he has in the inside.  And the converse is true too viz. if a person is evil from the inside, he will only produce evil. 

Jesus says that a man is recognized by the fruit he bears: a good man will always bear good fruit and an evil man, bad fruit.  It cannot change and will not change for that is the principle of life which is seen in nature too, where a good tree only produces good fruit and a bad tree will bear bad fruit.  We may try to build facades in our dealings with people in the short term since we know them, but eventually, the truth comes out; the beans are spilled, so to say.

When someone new comes to the church we welcome and greet them and after the service is over, we try to surmise what kind of people they are by the kind of attitude they showed us. At times, we jump to conclusions about them and in our hurry to judge, we say they aren’t friendly because we found them a little snotty, a trifle snobbish and uncultured.  But later, it is they who come to help us in our time of need and our opinions of them are turned on their heads.  Mind you we had never seen what they were like inside before we opined what they were and so we erred.  But they being good gave proof of their good.  As Christians, we must never judge; rather wait till the people show their fruit and then we will know what they are.