THE FRUITS AND GIFTS
I love the topic on fruits and gifts of the Holy Spirit and thought why not try to contextualize it to us.
During birthdays or any other special occasions, gifts are usually exchanged or rather better yet given to one. Let's take you as the recipient today. When gifts are brought to you, immediately they are handed over to you, they rightfully become yours. Beauty of it, you can decide when where and how to open them. You immediately have the right ownership to use it or them. On the side of the spectrum you can equally decide not to open them and keep the gift(s) on some safe somewhere And you wouldn't enjoy the priviledges or fun that come with it. Now that's the same thing with the Gift of the Holy Spirit. God has graciously handed to us the gifts of the Holy Spirit. Meaning as a Christian you are rightfully endowed with a special gift in you. However, most of us have decided to keep the gift on a safe somewhere. I'll pause and ask a question to you, what is your gift?
Let me scoot from there and come to my all time favorite. The fruits! Now these ones are interesting because unlike gifts which we are rightfully endowed with and it just needs us to start using them, fruits require us to cultivate them. Just like plants need to be watered, pruned and looked after before they reach maturity and bear fruits, we need to cultivate our fruits to ensure they are well planted in our hearts. This explains why one may be a Christian but has too much hate in them yet God is love and they love this love. It's because they have failed to cultivate the act of caring for these fruits in them. If you are to move from a person full of jealousy, hatred to the most loving person your friends can relate to, one who is very kind, then you need to cultivate this fruit of love by daily watering it and this is by applying it. This applies to all the other fruits you know of ;love,joy,kindness,patience,goodness,self control,etc.
Start growing your fruits and you will see them growing in you.
God bless!
During birthdays or any other special occasions, gifts are usually exchanged or rather better yet given to one. Let's take you as the recipient today. When gifts are brought to you, immediately they are handed over to you, they rightfully become yours. Beauty of it, you can decide when where and how to open them. You immediately have the right ownership to use it or them. On the side of the spectrum you can equally decide not to open them and keep the gift(s) on some safe somewhere And you wouldn't enjoy the priviledges or fun that come with it. Now that's the same thing with the Gift of the Holy Spirit. God has graciously handed to us the gifts of the Holy Spirit. Meaning as a Christian you are rightfully endowed with a special gift in you. However, most of us have decided to keep the gift on a safe somewhere. I'll pause and ask a question to you, what is your gift?
Let me scoot from there and come to my all time favorite. The fruits! Now these ones are interesting because unlike gifts which we are rightfully endowed with and it just needs us to start using them, fruits require us to cultivate them. Just like plants need to be watered, pruned and looked after before they reach maturity and bear fruits, we need to cultivate our fruits to ensure they are well planted in our hearts. This explains why one may be a Christian but has too much hate in them yet God is love and they love this love. It's because they have failed to cultivate the act of caring for these fruits in them. If you are to move from a person full of jealousy, hatred to the most loving person your friends can relate to, one who is very kind, then you need to cultivate this fruit of love by daily watering it and this is by applying it. This applies to all the other fruits you know of ;love,joy,kindness,patience,goodness,self control,etc.
Start growing your fruits and you will see them growing in you.
God bless!
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