Shining Star
A Kid’s Guide to an Awesome Christian Life
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You may have heard about the fruits of the Spirit: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. It’s easy to think those are rules for living like a Christian, but we’ve got it backwards if we try to act this way just because we want to be good Christians.
To help us think about the fruits of the Spirit the right way, let’s choose a fruit we know, like grapes. If you want some grapes you need to pick them from a grapevine or buy them from someone who has picked them from a grapevine. That’s the only way to get grapes. You can’t make grapes on your own – there is no special recipe. Only grapevines can make grapes.
It’s the same with the fruits of the Spirit. You can’t make love, joy and peace on your own. They are fruits that come from the ‘grapevine’ of God. God is all about love, joy, peace, patience kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. These things describe exactly who God is. If we want them too, the only way to get them is to be branches on God’s grapevine.
Jesus explained to people that He is like a vine, and we are like the branches. Grapes grow on the branches, but only if the branches are connected to the vine. If you break a branch off, it will stop growing grapes.
If we stay connected to Jesus, his Holy Spirit will produce the fruits of love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control in our lives. It’s that simple. So keep talking to Him every day, and listening to what his Spirit teaches you. This way, you stay joined to Jesus and become more like Him – producing the same kind of fruit that He did when he was on the earth. He still produces this fruit in the lives of people who follow Him today!
“God, I am becoming more like You every day because I am spending time talking to You and listening to your Spirit. Thank you for making the fruit of your Spirit grow in my life when I stay joined to You this way.”
I am the vine, and you are the branches. If you stay joined to Me, and I to you, you will produce plenty of fruit. But separated from Me you won’t be able to do anything. John 15:5
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About the Book
As a Christian, you have everything you need to live an amazing life—one that you love living and that others will see and want to follow.
The Bible tells us that Christians are like Shining Stars, giving light for everyone to see who God is and why living for Him is the best way to live.
This book shows you twelve important things to help you be a Shining Star and live the kind of life God created you to live.
About the Author
Leah Katerberg’s job is to help poor people around the world make more money at their businesses. This work has brought her to more than twenty-five countries, where she has seen God do amazing things through Christians who are excited to follow Him. Leah’s other job is to help her three children learn more about God so they can be as excited as she is to live life the way God meant it. Leah lives with her family in Fergus, Ontario, Canada, where her husband is a pastor at Elora Road Christian Fellowship.