Question #2 Nov. 19th, 2010

The fruit that springs from the root of bitterness are difficulty and corruption. In other words, if you engage in the faulty assumptions that bitterness is appropriate for a daughter of Christ, it becomes a root in your life from which the fruit of trouble will sprout. If you invite bitterness into your thought closet, you will wardrobe yourself with troublesome thoughts and destructive emotions.

Stop and ask God to first show you the bitter and sour fruit in your life. What is your fruit? Are you hypersensitive with other people--as I was with Phil? do you constantly interpret other people's words and actions as personal attacks? 
Defensive thinking and hypersensitive emotions are fruit. 

Here's another fruit. During my college years I was paralyzed by the notion that nothing I did was good enough. That assumption bore the fruit of perfectionism. Do you ever find that fruit in you life? If your fruit of perfectionism has matured, you may place those same unrealistic demands on the people you love. 

Label your fruit. In a post, list the root (faulty assumption) and label with the result. Describe each fruit, for example: (poison, sour, nourishing)