Kanji: Fruit, Truth, Reality

Meaning: fruit, reality, truth - 実 - み

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This kanji has 8 strokes and is taught in 3rd grade. 

There are 3 parts to this kanji. 1) roof, 2) earth, and 3) big.

Gen. 1:11 And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, 

and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth:and it was so. 12 And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, 

and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind:and God saw that it was good. 

 

Gal. 5:22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, 23 Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.

(The following analogy is of my own making and only to help me recall the kanji character 

and it's meaning.)

God has provided a big earth in which to grow fruit in. 

God has provided a covering (atmosphere) which makes it possible for plants to grow. 

In like manner, it is a "truth", a "reality" that we can not produce spiritual fruit in our lives without God's help, His "covering!"

Really, it is not us that produces fruit in our lives at all!! But it is God working in and through us. After all, that's why it is called the fruit of "the Spirit!"