What Raymond Reddington and Jesus Have in Common
“We are what we do,” said Raymond Reddington, a character on tv’s popular “Blacklist” earlier this week.
The writers were obviously drawing on Aristotle. “We are what we repeatedly do,” wrote Aristotle. “Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.”
Jesus says in Matthew 7:15-20, Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravenous wolves. You will know them by their fruits. Do people gather grapes from thornbushes or figs from thistles? Even so, every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit. A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a bad tree bear good fruit. Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. Therefore by their fruits you will know them.
Who do your actions reveal you to be?
Serious stuff. “We are what we do.”
joescheets 
This one had me thrown deep in reflection and I had to think hard on it (still am)! I haven’t been online much, I have read here when I was, but without much time for attentive reply. I haven’t come up with much I can put into words. I pray, continually, that I bear good fruit, in some instances, it is hard to tell. The one lesson that kept coming back to me, was from a song that was in youth group or at Aldersgate whenever someone brought out a guitar, “They’ll know we are Christians by our love, by our love. They’ll know we are Christians by our love.” I have more or less lived with that as a creed. Is it the evidence of good fruit?
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“Yes, they’ll know…”
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🙂 Have missed your replies!
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