Fruitfulness

God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky and over every living creature that moves on the ground.” – Genesis 1:28

Some of us work everyday to make a living, and some of us may go to school to study in preparation for our careers. The modern culture of industrialized societies has us living each day extremely task oriented and goal driven – yet everyday may seem also like a drag, utterly plain, and simply to just get by or pursue after more wealth. But is that the call of our lives as God’s holy people? The question we can often ask is, how do we live as a Christians in today’s society, in a mundane life?

There are those of us that choose to live that life, often feeling as if we have no other choice. We’ve lost a sense of power an significance as God’s people in this world, being washed away by an assembly line of tasks that ought to stimulate economical growth rather than spiritual.

The call of God’s people is contrary to what has become mundane daily life. We were called to be fruitful. There are many teachings out there that falsely drive Christians to pursue after wealth and fortune in lieu of this verse, but today’s devotional will speak completely in opposition to that. In fact the increase in number has nothing to do with our wealth. The fruitfulness and numbers which God speaks to his people, is of God’s children.

Money and wealth was not given to us so that it may master us, but so that we may subdue it. We are not driven by material growth or possession, but instead that we use it for the sake of God’s kingdom and glory. Our lives then ought to be driven by the call to serve Christ so that more should be born again. If Christ died on the cross for us, and rose again from the dead so that we can have eternal life with him, and be regenerated by the works of His blood and the Holy Spirit, then we are called also to be ambassadors of that powerful revelation.

The power of God which is vested in all of us, and as we carry the great commission in our time here on earth, then life just got more exciting. The greatness of God in which we all believe only truly becomes experienced when we instead labour not for financial and material gain, but in the sharing of God’s love and salvation with others. Fruitfulness is only truly found in the glory of God, for God, and in Christ alone.