Tim Challies compares the growth of fruit on a tree to the growth of the fruit of the Spirit in the life of a believer:
"Just about every Christian has memorized the closing verses of
Galatians and Paul's description of the fruit of the Spirit: love, joy, peace,
patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control. This is
the character of the man or woman who has been justified by grace
through faith.
Yet as we review the list, and especially as we review it slowly and
prayerfully, we may find ourselves growing weary and discouraged by how little
of that fruit we see. We are still angry at times, still struggling with
self-control, still not nearly as gentle as Jesus Christ was and is."
Paul's metaphor of the "fruit" of the Spirit can help us,
though. Here are five things that are true of fruit trees and, therefore, true of the fruit of the Spirit.
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