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My Daily Meditation For The Circling Year by John Henry Jowett

AUGUST The Tenth GOOD FRUIT

LUKE vi.43-49.

My Lord seeks |good fruit.| It must be sound. No disease must lurk within it. My virtues are so often touched with defilement. There is a little untruth even in my truth. There is a little jealousy even in my praise. There is a little superciliousness even in my forbearance. There is a little pride even in my piety. It is not |whole,| not holy. God demands sound fruit.

And |good fruit| demands |a good tree.| We must not look for truth from an untrue soul. If the bullet-mould is deformed, all the bullets will share its deformity. First get the mould right, and every bullet will share its rectitude. When the soul is |true,| all our words, and deeds, and gestures will be |of the truth,| and will be true indeed. |Make the tree good.|

And that is just what our Lord proclaims His willingness to do. He does not begin with effects, but with causes; not with fruit, but with trees. He does not begin with our speech, but with the speaker; not with conduct, but with character. And, blessed be His name, He can transform |corrupt trees| into |good trees,| until it shall be said: |He that hath turned the world upside down has come hither also.|

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