I grew up thinking that the fruit of a Christian life was to lead someone else to Christ.  (Not that it isn't.) So I was always trying.  With only occasional success.  And then I read Dawson Trotman's book "Born to Reproduce."  And Galations 5:22 took on new meaning:  "The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long-suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, and temperance."

Those nine fruits of the Spirit are the natural result of Christ coming to live in your life.  They are products of His holy Spirit within you.  And later, when I was reading Psalm 1:3, I got an entirely new perspective on bearing fruit.

"And you shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that brings forth your fruit in your season..."   That passage is saying that if you are planted by a source of water, and the ground you are planted in is good ground,  then fruit happens.  You don't have to grunt and groan to produce those nine kinds of fruit.  They happen.  Naturally.

And the beauty of it is...the seed for the new tree is inside the fruit.  In due season, fruit falls to the ground and another tree grows...born to reproduce in like kind.

What the Bible is saying is that if the Holy Spirit lives within you, you will be loving.  You will be joyful.  You will be peaceful.  You will suffer quietly.  You will be gentle and good, meek and have temperance.  And your faith will be visible to others!

Those are the qualities that draw people to you--and ultimately to Christ.  You simply share why those qualities exist in your life.  "Be ready always to give an answer to every man that asks you for a reason of the hope that is in you..." 1 Peter 3:15

It isn't hard at all to share why you are hopeful.  It is a natural product of being planted in the soil of the Word, by the River of Water that rises up in your veins--Christ Jesus.  You are just a tree.  God does the "doing."  You can't produce fruit seeds on your own.