When you follow God’s way, the Holy Spirit cultivates the fruit of the Spirit in your life. The fruit of the Spirit are the qualities that the Spirit grows in you—a beautiful metaphor for your life in Christ.
The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law. (Galatians 5:22-23)
Paul gave this list to the church in Galatia to correct bad teaching about the Christian life. This 15-day devotional series will follow Paul’s teaching to the Galatians, and especially his teaching about the fruit that the Spirit wants to cultivate in every believer.
How has following Jesus changed your life? If you are following Jesus, even if you have been following Jesus your whole life, Jesus should be changing you day-by-day.
As you study Galatians, consider where Jesus is working in your life, and look for the good fruit he is cultivating.
Read: Galatians 5:22-23; Genesis 1 But the fruit of the Spirit is . . . goodness. (v. 22) We use the word “good” in all sorts of ways. The food was good, my day
Read: Galatians 5:22-23; Hebrews 12:1-2 But the fruit of the Spirit is . . . faithfulness. (v. 22) “There is no shadow of turning with Thee.” That’s how we describe God’s faithfulness in the
Read: Galatians 5:22-23; Philippians 4:4-7 But the fruit of the Spirit is . . . gentleness. (vv. 22-23) For some reason, when I think about gentleness in contemporary terms I picture someone standing up
Read: Galatians 5:22-23; 2 Timothy 1:3-7 But the fruit of the Spirit is . . . self-control. (vv. 22-23) Last but not least, self-control is a fruit of the Spirit. Self-control, or any moderation
Read: Galatians 5:22-23; Romans 13:8-10 . . . against such things there is no law. (v. 23) It might seem a little odd that Paul concludes the list of fruits of the Spirit
Read: Galatians 5:25; Matthew 7:15-20 If we live by the Spirit, let us also keep in step with the Spirit. (v. 25) The law can’t produce them or maintain them; only
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