TRUE LOVE
Galatians 5:22, 23 gives us a list of sins of flesh and a list of the fruit of the spirit, “The work which his presence accomplishes”.The fruit of the holy Spirit are qualities we see in Jesus Himself:
Love joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness,faithfulness,gentleness, and self-control.
This is the goal of the Holy One living within us, to produce or accomplish this fruit in our lives—-big, luscious fruit for everyone to see and admire. Love is the everlasting fruit that will not fade away. To bear fruit we must abide in God’s love— by loving others, and to endure in his love by loving others, and to endure testing by responding to trials with love. We can move into the blessed, exceptional type of life we truly desire through developing the character qualities of the fruit of the spirit. When we as Christians know that God is available for us and are open to receiving from him, his spirit give us the power we need to develop the fruit to live the type of life God wants for us.
God gives us various gifts to use, but he gives us the fruit of the Spirit to develop. When the Holy Spirit lives inside us, we have everything he has,. His fruit is in us. The seed is planted. In order to use the gifts in the most powerful way that God desires, we must allow the seed of the fruit to grow up and mature in us by cultivating it. The gifts of the Spirit must be accompanied by the fruit of the Spirit to get the best results.
We can cultivate all the fruitby focusing on love, the first in the list of the nine fruit, and self control, the last is the list. Love and self-control are like bookends that hold the others in the place. All the fruit issue from love and actually are a form of love. But they are kept in place of self-control. We have to concentrate on developing the fruit of love, we don’t have to become impatient with people as you walk through your day.
We have not to be anything but kind. We have to be good to people, supportive, and faithful instead of being naughty or trying to appear better than others. If we are not motivated by love, we have to find that operating in the fruit is very difficult. But even when you are motivated to express God’s love as a lifestyle, there will be times when we wil not feel like being patient, kind, joyful, peaceful, or even nice at all! Those are the times that we need self-control in order to continue to respond with the fruit of the spirit even though we don’t feel like it. We need to develop this fruit of self-control, begin by simply making little choices throughout the day to respond with the fruit to situations we encounter.
Also we need to remember, love self-control, and all the other fruit of the spirit grow when we allow the Holy Spirit’s presence within we accomplish his work. INVEST IN A PURE HEART
Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God. Matt 5:8
Purity of heart is not a natural trait—it is something that must be worked in us. We believe purging and purity go together. Purging is a tedious process in which worthless things are removed while the things of value are retained. Removing the worthless without harming the valuable requires an expert—-and God is an expert! He is like a refiner who sits over the fire where gold and silver are being refined,. He never leaves us for one second, but watches over us and impurities are being extracted he makes sure the valuable things in our are not harmed. God was willing to pay the price to redeem us. We have to be willing to pay the price to have purity in our life—purity of motives, thoughts, attitudes, words, and actions.
SPIRIT, MIND, AND BODY 1 Thessalonians 5 :23
Many people do not understand that we are think part beings:spirit, soul and body. We are a spirit, we have a soul, and we live in a body,. Our new birth begins in our spirit, is carried out through our soul, and is finally visible to other people through a demonstration to God’s glory in physical lives. Many Christians make mistake of thinking that God cares only about the spirit. But he wants us to be whole in soul and body, too. Be blessed in the knowledge that God is faithful and will sanctify us in body, soul and spirit. God promises to take care of all three parts that make us who we are. We have to work with the Holy Spirit to carry out that plan that began to operate in us when we accepted Jesus as our Lord and Savior.
Our new birth begins in our spirit, is carried out through our soul, and is finally visible to other people through a demonstration of his glory in our physical life. God is working in us as long as we believe. He has begun a good work and he will also finish it. So we have to believe in God and be waiting for his answer to our prayers we just need to believe in him heartfully. And have to understand his words and work that he is doing in our life. Also not leaving us behind , he is walking before us. Because of one reason that he loves us so much. That’s why he never forget his promise that he gave us. So we have to “Keep Looking to Jesus”.
Let us pray -Heavenly Father you made us with your hand in your image ,let our life shows to others we are belong to you, amen.
Sol pia.