“You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you so that you might go and bear fruit—fruit that will last—and so that whatever you ask in my name the Father will give you.” John 15:16 NIV
Jesus is speaking to His disciples in this verse and reminding them that they did not choose Jesus, He chose them to be His disciples. He appointed them because He knew that they could bear fruit. The fruit Jesus is talking about is the ability of them to spread the good news of Christ to everyone. The disciples were given the ability to perform miracles as well by Jesus, but only when God deemed them to be done. They had to ask in Jesus’s name for God, the Father to permit the miracle to occur.
This verse is not only for the 12 disciples who followed Jesus. Jesus is speaking to you and me today as well with this verse. He wants us to spread the good news of Who He is to everyone. Do you spread the good news? Do you witness to others? Some people are afraid to witness with words, but everyone witnesses with the way they live their lives. We don’t tend to perform miracles, but we are able to be witnesses and spread God’s love everywhere we go.