Be Fruitful and Multiply!

“But the Holy Spirit produces this kind of fruit in our lives: love, joy, peace, patience,

kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control.” (Galatians 5:22, NLT) 

Look at the World, John Rutter

Greetings to you all in the name of our Lord, Jesus Christ,

 

It is getting hotter and hotter each week because it is summer now! However, not just the weather outside but the weather inside. I mean, in a little box of social, political, economic and religious arena through mass media dealing with unseen enemy, COVID 19. 

 

As time goes, another unseen enemy surfaced, so called racism. We feel like or act like it is the only United States’ problem though, believe it or not, it has always been a part of human life all throughout the human history around the world. We call it the human reality of sin and death. However, dealing with those unseen enemies, numerous obstacles are growing right in front of us due to the differences that we have in us: differences in value, differences in purpose, differences in culture, differences in belief and differences in temperament. Maybe there are more differences.

 

However, the worst part is when it contradicts each other and creates tension among us as we deal with those unseen enemies. It means, we might be creating lots of noise together - offending noise, defending noise, scratching noise, destroying noise, hurting noise, ignoring noise and heated noise. It is like a flood of information whether those are reliable or not. 

 

However, an interesting fact in this heated season is, despite of all those, birds are still singing for one another early in the morning; deer are passing by our front and back yard quietly every night. Squirrels are collecting their food all day long. Those are not all. Turkeys, bears, chipmunks, rabbits and humming birds. They don’t care what we are going through. Is that their ignorance or indifference? 

 

Anyway, an amazing fact in this season is that the corns and beans are growing; the wheats are maturing even though it is around them - rainy, shiny, humid, gloomy or bright. Their yearly business is growing, maturing and fruit bearing with the resources that God has provided them through this season. And a question comes: “What is our busyness?” I mean, “We, Christians?”

 

“Be fruitful and multiply” (Genesis 1:28, NLT)

 

We are not much different from those beans, corns and wheats in the field in this season of hot summer in the surrounding environments - heavy rains, thunderstorms, scorching heart and strong winds. In our spiritual field, in this heated season with the Holy Spirit, we are making fruits, fighting with ignorance, indifference, prejudice and conflict in the flood of information of our spiritual environments.

 

So now, brothers and sisters in Christ, are we in the same business in this season of the Holy Spirit, our spiritual hot summer season? For the next two months, we will continually grow to bear much fruits of the Holy Spirit together: a love that breaks the wall; the joy of the Lord, my strength; a hope filled patience; a peace like a river; a miracle making kindness; a goodness of the Good News; a cross bearing faithfulness; a power holding meekness and a soul saving self control.

 

Let us come together and dream dreams of the harvest in growing,

Pastor Kyochul