It's All About the Harvest // Reaping the Harvest of Righteousness, Part 2

<p>God’s Word talks about the harvest of righteousness – and if you’ve ever lived in a farming community you’ll know that harvest time is a time of huge celebration. So this harvest of righteousness – it’s not just empty words, it’s a big deal.</p> <p> </p> <h3><span style="color: #ff9900;"><strong>The Fruit of Righteousness</strong></span></h3> <p>One of the things that we do in this world – particularly, let me say, in the West – is that we get hooked on junk food. Pretty much, most people need three meals a day: breakfast, lunch and dinner. Some don’t get that of course, and others skip meals because they’re too busy to eat. And in between meals we like to have little snacks and often the snacks we consume can be our undoing.</p> <p>Instead of healthy snack of a banana or an apple or an orange, we go for the chocolate bar or the doughnut or the packet of chips or something equally unhealthy. Of course, one of those every now and then, no problem but if those are the things that we snack on most of the time, they are going to make us sick and tired, literally.</p> <p>I’ve done that a few times in my life and each time I have eventually come to my senses and replaced those unhealthy snacks with healthy ones, well, at first it seemed like a real burden to give up the junk food snacks, but within a day or two, here’s what happens:</p> <p>1. What I found is that I rediscover how wonderful fruit tastes: a sweet mandarin, a juicy orange, a crisp apple, a ripe banana. They are fantastic. What a surprise!</p> <p>2. Within just a few days, I am feeling much healthier: more energy, more alert, a spring in my step. The fruit, as it turns out, is good for us in so many different ways.</p> <p>Last week on the programme we were chatting about reaping the harvest of righteousness and we saw that God’s righteousness is two things: it’s both bad news and good news. Bad news because He is righteousness and we are not and eventually that brings His wrath crashing down on our heads and good news because He knows that, which is why