But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control.
- Galatians 5:22-23
The fruits of the Spirit are difficult fruits to cultivate. I've found the most difficult to be the cultivation of true Christian joy - joy in the face of hardships, challenges, or even during the uneventful times. I wonder if the fruits of the Spirit were the parts of a house if joy wouldn't be the root? After we have sowed the seeds of peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control perhaps then we reap the reward of the servants of God - boundless joy. All the other fruits can be practiced, but how can one practice the joy of God without having first labored to nurture it? My striving, the entire aim of my life, is to grow so that one day I can open my leaves and drink in the fullness of the Light of the Son and feel His joy coursing down to my roots.
3 comments:
"I wonder if the fruits of the Spirit were the parts of a house if joy wouldn't be the root?"
Do you mean parts of a plant?
"one day I can open my leaves and drink in the fullness of the Light of the Son and feel His joy coursing down to my roots."
I don't follow your metaphor.
"My striving, the entire aim of my life, ..."
Is it really? How so? What do you do to strive towards that? Will you take me with you?
"I don't follow your metaphor."
Because I'm a terrible speller and proofreader. I meant to say "roof"
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