Your Daily Walk
Find a piece of fruit (an apple will do nicely) and a sheet of paper. Then in the next five minutes, see if you can make 25 observations about that "fruity" object. Describe it in terms of its shape, size, color, weight, texture, smell, and taste.
Now suppose someone asked you, "What does a Christian look like? Describe one for me." What would you say? A good place to start would be the fruit of the Spirit. Nine characteristics of that fruit are given in 5:22-23, and they are qualities that only a Christian can exhibit consistently. Why? Because only a Christian who has the supernatural Holy Spirit within can produce a supernatural life without¡Xa life characterized by joy, peace, patience, and more!
Pick one of the nine Spirit-given "fruit flavors" in 5:22-23. Write it on an index card and tape it to your dashboard, desk, refrigerator, or mirror. Then ask God to exhibit that quality in your life today. Some are inward attitudes (love, joy, peace); others are outward actions (long-suffering, gentleness, goodness); and still others are Godward responses (faith, meekness, temperance). But all are unmistakable marks of the Christian!
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