Fruit of the Spirit: Love
I’m writing a mini blog series if you will, on the Fruit of the Spirit. The first fruit is Love, and I thought how appropriate to start this on Valentine’s Day. Many of my blogs have been about Love. God is Love.
I think “Love” is misunderstood. We talk about love, and people even ask the hard question, How can God be a God of love and allow all the evil? I’ve touched on this subject in previous blogs. I think the answer is to know what real Love is. And I really believe we, humans, have no idea what “real” Love is. And that brings me to the fruit of the spirit. The Fruit of the Spirit, as quoted in Galatians 5:22 is just that…Fruit of the Spirit. It’s not something we, Humans can do. It’s something that pours out of somebody filled with the Spirit. It’s God showing through.
As a child of God, being filled with the Spirit, we should be letting the Love flow through us. If we let the Holy Spirit fill us, Love will naturally flow through. We all desperately need this Love in today’s world! Just think if our anger, depression, bitterness, anxiety, unforgiveness, and hatred all gave way to this Love. It would be like inhaling fresh air so deep into your lungs, filling our lungs down to our bellybutton, and then exhaling all the ugliness out and seeing life in a whole new, fresh happy perspective. It would be so freeing and refreshing, warming us down to our tippy toes. Then think of those around us, what a statement we would make without even a word. This type of Love would ooose out of us. If this was the only fruit we received from the Holy Spirit, it would be more than enough. Love. Real genuine Love. Letting go, letting the Holy Spirit Fill Us. Let’s let go and let the Holy Spirit flow Genuine Love through us. Don’t try, don’t force, don’t pretend, just let.
“But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith,”
Galatians 5:22 HCSB
https://www.bible.com/72/gal.5.22.hcsb
“Love is patient, love is kind. Love does not envy, is not boastful, is not conceited, does not act improperly, is not selfish, is not provoked, and does not keep a record of wrongs. Love finds no joy in unrighteousness but rejoices in the truth. It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never ends. But as for prophecies, they will come to an end; as for languages, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will come to an end. For we know in part, and we prophesy in part. But when the perfect comes, the partial will come to an end. When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put aside childish things. For now we see indistinctly, as in a mirror, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I will know fully, as I am fully known. Now these three remain: faith, hope, and love. But the greatest of these is love.”
1 Corinthians 13:4-13 HCSB