FEEDING LOVE WITH THE FRUITS OF THE HOLY SPIRIT.
I will be very direct about this everybody needs to pour into themselves and then pour into others but not in a selfish way.Investing in loving and healing your soul will be the main goal that points us into the direction of loving our neighbor as we love ourselves. Taking time to let the Holy Spirit cultivate his fruits in our lives is very profitable for your soul, body and mind.
Galatians 5:22-23 New International Version 22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law.
How many of us think, we love ourselves but cannot talk to someone who offended you a few hours ago or a day ago? Who says I have joy but confusing it with happiness of the happenings? By this I mean after what has happened you fall back into worry of something else. Do you sometimes feel peaceful, but when a bill comes and you do not have finances you cannot sleep? Do you usually get frustrated because of situations, queues, that person that annoys you? Well you need to work on the patience or long suffering. How many times do you exude generosity, considerate and helping others? Thus kindness should be part of you. God is holy thus righteousness should be in action in our lives. How many times a day does your heart desire to be loyal and trustworthy towards God and your fellow human beings?
Do you think you can practice Mathew 5:38-42?Humility, meekness and compassion are required of all of us for the streams of love to keep flowing within us and flow out of us for others. How many times have you held back from sin? Self control is a challenge that all of us need to have in order to let love breath within us and around us.
Many of us when we see these fruits of the spirit think this is impossible; it’s like a man with a joint dislocation climbing mountain Everest. Note this, there is a reason they are called the fruits of the Holy Spirit. He is the only one both in the heavens and on earth who knows how to cultivate them in us. There is a treasure in pursuing these fruits. The treasure it brews love within us. we live, we love.
What do we need to do to get him to work them in us? The Holy Spirit is a gift to us. In order to get him, the first step coming to peace into action with having a relationship we our lord Jesus Christ. Secondly, is living a life that makes the Holy Spirit active which is having faith or believing. When he is active, you have to communion and fellowship with him to keep you going because he always engaged.
I thought that God was asking too much of me but it‘s me who gets to enjoy the work he has done in me. Stop for 20 minutes and think about these fruits of the Holy Spirit and close your eyes. Imagine yourself living while practicing them in your life. What feelings come into your soul?
In conclusion, self love is very important and many say that what goes around comes back around. Imagine yourself living in the fruits of the Holy Spirit and I promise, they will come back to you.
