Happy new year all. Firstly, I would like to take this opportunity to thank God for all He has done for you, your families and me, during the festive season. He is a good God and let all the glory be unto Him.
I was busy reading and this is what I came across. It was so spot on and I thought I should share it with you, I felt that we could all learn from this.
Ever wonder why sometimes in your life certain things you want changed, never actually change? Though I knew the Lord and often times my walk with Him was not that of one to be proud of. Yet there was no peace of mind, no real positive outlook. And I mean this kind of void went on for years. It was one of those kind of, you mght say " Flu Bugs " that just seemed to hang on. At my best description of it, I guess you could call it a " Dark Cloud " that just followed me around for what seemed almost 1/2 of my life. Till one day a close friend of mine said to me “If that is not working for you why don't you change it or get rid of the part that no longer works for you!”
Year after year I kept trying to use my old remedies, hoping things in my life would turn around. Sadly things actually got worse. Simple as it sounds, It was the hardest thing I would ever face, or even attempt to work on for that matter. But you see, all these years I was going about it the wrong way. Absolutely wrong about how to work on changing who and what I was. Till one day I read Galatians Chapter 5:22 through 26. There it told me of this fruitage of Gods " Spirit " and how I could apply each one to my life one by one by one. I found in doing so that I no longer was working on changing me, I was actually allowing the Holy Spirit to work on me, to change me. Once you allow the Holy Spirit to work inside you, you begin to change. My friends, I hope that if your reading this, that my short story will somehow inspire you or aide you in your walk with the Lord. Every now and then we all need a helping hand from one another...
After reading this, it really made me think. What are the areas of my life that needs changing? I remember David’s prayer in Psalms 51:10
“Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me”
Now our job will be to get into the Word to find out exactly what it is God is going to want to change about us. We will need to find out exactly what qualities God will want us to try and "put on" into our personality and what qualities He will want us to try and "put away."
This article will be the first of a series of articles giving you all of the appropriate Scripture verses showing you exactly which qualities and attributes God will want to get worked into your personality and which qualities He will want to pull out of you.
And there is no better place to start this series of articles than with the 9 fruits of the Holy Spirit. If you want to start off by keying on some of the more positive qualities that God would really like to get worked into your personality - really study and meditate on these specific 9 qualities.
Now here is the specific verse from Scripture where these 9 fruits are being given to us by the Lord:
"But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control." (Galatians 5:22)
So in my next article, I will expand more on each of these fruits so we can fully understand what each one of these fruits are all about and how they can dramatically change the quality of our lives and our state of well-being if we are willing to allow the Holy Spirit to start to work all 9 of these fruits into our mind, soul and personality.
Is there something that needs changing in your life?
Do you know how to go about it?
Stay Blessed.