Galatians 5:13-25
13 You, my brothers and sisters, were called to be free. But do not use your freedom to indulge the flesh; rather, serve one another humbly in love. 14 For the entire law is fulfilled in keeping this one command: “Love your neighbor as yourself.” 15 If you bite and devour each other, watch out or you will be destroyed by each other.16 So I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh. 17 For the flesh desires what is contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit what is contrary to the flesh. They are in conflict with each other, so that you are not to do whatever you want. 18 But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.19 The acts of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity and debauchery; 20 idolatry and witchcraft; hatred, discord, jealousy, fits of rage, selfish ambition, dissensions, factions21 and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I did before, that those who live like this will not inherit the kingdom of God.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. 24 Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. 25 Since we live by the Spirit, let us keep in step with the Spirit. 26 Let us not become conceited, provoking and envying each other
Reflection
By the work of God in Jesus Christ, we have been freed from slavery to sin and death. But we were bought with a high price, so we are called not to continue to live as we did before but to live as ministers of Jesus Christ called by God’s love living by God’s command. We witness to this by living our lives so we show the fruit of the Spirit to the world . Many of us say fruits of the Spirit, but as we read here it is only one fruit that is born witness by showing, “love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control.” Do you feel there is a part of the fruit of the Spirit lacking in your life or you need God to work on? Tell God about it.
