A HEALTHY SPIRIT
Galatians 5:22-23
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law.
I remember a while back hearing of a marathon runner that ran a complete marathon and when he crossed the finish line he fell over, dead from a heart attack. He looked perfectly healthy from the outside, but inside he was very different.
These verses in Galatians give us a "check-up" of what we look like inside. These attributes of a spiritually healthy person are a measuring stick of where we need to be. Read them again carefully. How are you doing? I found myself reading them over and over again to check my own life.
Our world is full of things that appear to be beautiful on the outside, but when we get to the inside we find that things are not as beautiful as they seem.
Every heart is filled with something. We all build a collection of behaviors and traits that control our hearts and minds. We can mask the contents of our hearts for just so long until finally, they show through. Like the marathon runner if our heart is week or compromised, eventually it will fail.
How do we fill our hearts with: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control? By spending time in God's word, in prayer (conversations with him) and time with others that love the Lord.
Great news, there are no laws against any of these things. You are free to practice any and all of them.
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