Fruit of Love

Fruit of Love…

Have you ever seen a bowl of fruit that looks delicious only to find out that it’s wax? Galatians 5:22-23 says, “But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control.”

The problem is that many believers choose to have wax fruit instead of real fruit. They act loving, good, kind, and joyful instead of actually being these things. So, too, we often try to manufacture love instead of letting love grow.

We try to fashion a life of goodness from the outside by doing good things instead of the inside-out of the Spirit. We end up with a life of wax fruits of the Spirit. But the fruits of the Spirit are real fruit, not wax.

Don’t act fruitful; instead, learn to become fruitful. Don’t act beautiful – become beautiful. Live your life for Him from the inside out. Learn the secrets of growing the fruit of His Spirit from the inside of your heart out, and life will become sweet. Everything else is just wax fruit.

For it is God who works in you, both to will and to work for His good pleasure.  Philippians 2:13

Today, seek not to do good, but to be good; not to act loving, but to be loving; not to look beautiful, but to become beautiful.

Walk daily with God at your side!

Love always,

Ed 🙏🏼