Devotional: Victory...

Victory has to do with my happiness alone; fruitfulness means happiness for others and is only possible through seeming defeat. The corn of wheat must fall into the ground and die, else it abideth alone, but if it die it beareth much fruit. It is in the fruit, Jesus says, that the Father is glorified. The Savior's ultimate for His followers is much fruit-not safety, not social security, not ease, not pleasure, not prosperity. ...Frederick Huegel
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