Heat: Challenges of life

Dew: Blessings of life

- We tend to respond sinfully to both blessings and challenges. 

1. What fruit is my life growing? (Thoughts, words, actions, emotions)

2. What does that fruit show is my functional identity? (In control, Alone, Sovereign, Lawmaker ...) 

3. What does that fruit/identity say I beleive God has done/not done? (Abandoned me, cast me off, distant, rejected, not ruled world, not done right)

4. What does this say I believe about who God is in this circumstance? (Judge, Impotent, Unconcerned, Absentee Father, Not Good)

Root to Fruit: 

1. What is true about who God is relative to my false view? (Redeemer, Sovereign, Love, Present, Good, Involved) 

2. What is true about what God has done, especially in the Person of Christ? (Forgiven, Active FOR me, Adopted, Working out good, ...)

3. Who am I in light of God's truth? (Loved Child, Accepted, Justified, Heir, ...) 

4. What should I do in light of who God is and who I am? (Fruit of Spirit, Love/Care for Others, Participate in life of body, Forgive as forgiven, Bear with as I am borne with by Jesus, be compassionate, speak words that build up...)