The Fruit.

Galatians 5:22-25
22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law. 24 Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the sinful nature with its passions and desires. 25 Since we live by the Spirit, let us keep in step with the Spirit.

I provided you with scripture from Galatians today and yesterday. Galatians tends to be a very dramatic book of the Bible. You can sense the emotion through the pages. It's very insightful too. This passage is very simplistic for us Christians to grasp.

Last week in Alabama, while we did work and spend time with kids, at night we had worship and discussion time. The theme for the week was to be FREE for God. You can interpret that in so many ways. The first night was all about being free to love others. The only reason this is even possible is out of God's love and the fact that he loves YOU to begin with!

It's a highly important concept that teaches everyone a lesson at some points. It can be extremely challenging to love those people you know very well, perhaps because you're with them a lot, let alone complete strangers.

I must say that there was a strong deal of evidence showing that we were free to love others (in particular those we had never met) last week. As I mentioned yesterday, my work crew got along so well. This was one of those situations that it was easy to love (them) because there was no reason not to show love. They were easy to talk to and easy to work with. Everyone was a good example of a follower of Christ.

Walk each day with the Fruit of the Spirit inside of you. Do your best to align yourself with these traits.

You may have to read the quote below a few times before you understand it...

"All the fruits of the Spirit which we are to lay weight upon as evidential of grace, are summed up in charity, or Christian love; because this is the sum of all grace. And the only way, therefore, in which any can know their good estate, is by discerning the exercises of this divine charity in their hearts; for without charity, let men have what gifts you please, they are nothing." ~Jonathan Edwards