803) Have you ever had someone you admired; a person who you would model your life around? If you have, what happened when they said or did something that was not in line with the very things you admired them for?

Proverbs 18:21 tells us that the things people say have the power of life and death; not life or death. Everyone, no matter how much we admire them, no matter how admirable their actions, will say the wrong thing, at times. We need to expect this when judging the fruit of others’ actions and words and ours as well.

There will always be fruit, and the question is, when we grow a rotten piece, do we prune or fertilize?