Galatians 5:22-24
By contrast, the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, generosity, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. There is no law against such things. And those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.
I don’t know about you, but I enjoy a really great piece of fruit. I tend to spend a lot of time looking over all the types of fruit at the grocers. I look for the types of fruit I like and then check to see if they are almost ripe or starting to go bad before making my choices.
When Paul is taking about the fruit of the Sprit, he is talking about some really great fruit. If I had to pick just one of the examples Paul provided I think I would be hard pressed to decide.
Through Jesus, we are all capable of producing great fruit. We have been given the good seed from Jesus; all we have to do is nurture it, keep harmful things away from it and we will have the fruit of the Sprit. Now that sounds like a really great piece of fruit to me.
Joe Quinn
Visit http://www.allsaintspalatine.org for a full calendar and join us Wednesday for midweek Lenten worship. Dinner is served at 6:15 and worship (Holden Evening Prayer) is at 7 pm. This week's faith-sharer is college freshman Brittany Mata.
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