The spiritual nature that has been given to us
because of the sacrifice of Jesus produces in us love, joy, peace,
patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self
control. We have to ask ourselves; Is that what my life look like, is
my life full of these things? These are the characteristics we want,
the fruit of the spirit in our lives. If we don not have these things in
our lives, if we get retrospective and get serious we can trace down
the origin of all kinds of things that are stealing that, we can trace
down the origin of all kinds of posture of heart and all kinds of action
of mind, body and will that destroy the fruits of the spirit in our
lives. We plant things that are going to yield crops opposite to the
fruits of the spirit and we are going to harvest whatever we plant.
That's just how it works, what you plant is what you reap, that's how it
works across the board, plant corn, raise corn, plant potatoes get
potatoes, you don't plant carrots and get cabbage, ever, like that has
never happened, we don't have any historical records throughout history
where the farmer who plants carrots and somehow got cabbage; so what you
plant you're going to harvest. What you are harvesting now in your
life, we are always planting, everyday we are planting. So if what we
really want and what we are made for is love, joy, peace, patience,
kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self control, we have
to plant those things, we have to do these things in the face of
whatever else we have planted and are harvesting. It forces us to take a
look at our lives, the direction that we are headed in and also the
circumstances that surround our lives right now, the things that box us
in and very quickly we realize that I don't need all of this in my
life. I literally do not need all of this obligation and activities,
all of this responsibility and all of these circumstances that I have
overtime built up around my self.
So may we carve out some time in
our over busy over obligated life to take some stock prayerfully and
intimately with God to inquire about where it is that you would like to
end up. Invite the Holy Spirit to speak to the things that are
inhibited and deeply exercise the ways that we've following a corrupt
nature, a corrupt path that won't lead anywhere. Let
us get into the garden of our lives and start doing some significant
weeding and ending some seasons so that new seasons can begin.
Stop being afraid, we are free, free, free, freedom is ours and we have a
heavenly Father, the God of all, the sovereign God of all who is
present to walk with us in the way that we should go. It's time to make
some changes, may we invite God to lead us into all truth and freedom.
Help us God, we need you so desperately now.
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