What kind of fruit are people getting from your life? Every man is influencing somebody, and a righteous man’s life produces fruit that gives life to others.
Pastor Steve Alessi wraps up the Proverbs 11 week with a Friday challenge about influence. Whether you realize it or not, your words, attitude, and decisions are shaping the people around you. In Proverbs 11:30, Solomon compares the righteous man to a tree of life and calls the man who wins souls wise. The question isn’t whether you have influence. It’s which direction your influence is taking people.
A healthy tree provides shade, fruit, and protection, but it never eats its own fruit. What it produces is for someone else. Your wife, kids, coworkers, and friends are living off the fruit of your life every day. Are they getting encouragement or criticism? Faith or fear? Peace or drama? Steve shares the story of an elderly man planting trees along a road he’d never live to see grow tall. All his life, he’d enjoyed the shade of trees planted by men he never met, and now he was planting for those who’d come after him. Every man is planting something in his children, his marriage, his business, and his church. And a wise man remembers that people matter most. Don’t spend your whole life building things and forget to build people. Your greatest influence is helping someone find their way to Jesus, and it often starts with living in a way that makes someone ask, “What’s different about you?”
Verse of the Day:Proverbs 11:30
Your Daily Man-Up Challenge:
Identify one person you can intentionally influence toward a better life today, then encourage him, call him, or invite him to lunch. Instead of asking, “What am I accomplishing with my life?” ask, “Who’s becoming better because of my life?” Man up, plant something that will outlive you, and win somebody over today.
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