The Fruit Is Showing
Chrisean Rock's "Help" Is Not a Gospel Bag. It Is Evidence.
Back in March, I wrote something about Chrisean Rock that I want you to go back and read if you have not already.
[THE WORLD SAYS CHRISEAN ROCK IS HER SIN]
I was not writing about a celebrity. I was writing about a vessel. I was writing about what it looks like when God plants a seed in public and tends to it whether the audience believes in the harvest or not.
I said then that what we were watching was not a redemption arc. It was a resurrection.
I want to come back to that now because more fruit has appeared.
She just released “Help” with Tim Bowman Jr. and Faith City Music.
And when I tell you the lyrics are not a performance, I need you to hear me. This is a woman testifying in real time. She is rapping about breaking generational curses. She is talking about getting on her knees. She is saying out loud that Jesus Christ took away her sins and died on the cross and that her faith is not decoration. It is direction.
And then she pivots and calls her community to stop killing each other. To unify. To read the Bible. To show kings and queens how to build self-confidence. That is not an artist chasing a gospel bag. That is a woman who has been changed and cannot stop talking about it.
This is what fruit looks like. Not perfection. Not a cleaned-up image. Fruit. The thing that grows when the root is real.
Galatians 5:22 tells us that the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith. You do not produce that fruit by managing your reputation. You produce it by staying connected to the vine. John 15:5 says it plainly. Without Him, you can do nothing. With Him, the fruit comes on its own.
What I am watching in Chrisean is someone who found the vine and held on. The fruit is not something she manufactured. It grew. And now it is visible to everyone with eyes to see it.
Philippians 1:6 was the word I anchored that March article to without even quoting it directly. He which hath begun a good work in you will perform it. That is not a suggestion. That is a promise with a track record.
He started something. He is performing it.
Go find the song. Sit with the lyrics. And then come back and tell me that is not the Word of God working through a willing vessel.
The book of Chrisean is still being written. And the chapters keep getting richer.
Stay forever locked in Christ.