LIVE AS TRUE FRUIT!

“But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control.” Galatians 5:5

An apple tree produces apples. A lemon tree produces lemons. An olive tree produces olives. These are all products of the kinds of trees they come from. When we live in the Spirit of God, we are to produce a certain kind of fruit as well. We are to live with love, joy, peace. patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. We cannot produce any kind of evil when living in the Spirit. It is impossible. It is when we stray from our Lord God in heaven that we begin to wander into areas that produce other types of fruit. We may find ourselves involved in types of anger, jealousy, inappropriate language, sexual misconduct or other types of evil from the world we live in. We must remember that we do live in the world, but we are not of the world. We are children of the living God in heaven. If an apple tree produces a bad apple that apple is thrown away and of no use. It is the same with us. However, our Lord God is gracious and loving. He gives us the opportunity to repent and ask for forgiveness. We should live our lives with the consistency of all the characteristics of our Lord. He loves us unconditionally. PRAISE THE LORD IN ALL THINGS!