When you abide in Christ, your everyday relationships shift from transactional to transformational. You stop asking, “What can I get from these people?” and you start asking, “Lord, how do You want Your life to overflow onto these people right now through me?” The fruit Jesus talks about isn’t just for you, it’s also meant to be tasted by the people around you.

A healthy marriage is not two broken people facing each other, desperately trying to complete each other. It is two people, completely secure and deeply loved by God, standing side by side, and letting His life mutually overflow between them.

We all are abiding in something. So the question is, what are we abiding in? What are you looking to to produce the life you want? What has captured your attention, your habits, your priorities, your imagination? Because what you abide in matters and it will determine what kind of fruit is being produced in your life.