And so, we can tend to relate His faithfulness to only good things like His saving grace or keeping His promises. But we read in Deuteronomy 28 of the promise of consequences to disobedience and the blessings with obedience made to the Israelites. God’s faithfulness is a source of great comfort, hope and encouragement, as we see it being highlighted through the Psalms. His faithfulness like His love is unconditional, as it says in 2 Timothy 2:13 “If we are unfaithful, he remains faithful, since he cannot deny himself.” God’s faithfulness gives us reassurance that even in the midst of the bleakest situation, we can have hope because He can be relied upon. To us, it means that we can count on Him. The greatest gift we are given when we repent and turn to Him comes to us with an assurance because of His faithfulness to His promise. In 1 John 1:9 we are told, “If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness.” With absoluteness we can have the confidence that God will forgive us. Throughout scripture His faithfulness is starkly evident towards His people.
#Fruit of the spirit free#
“But now having been set free from sin, and having become slaves of God, you have your fruit to holiness, and the end, everlasting life.” Romans 6:22.Deuteronomy 7:9 says “Know therefore that the LORD your God is God he is the faithful God, keeping his covenant of love to a thousand generations of those who love him and keep his commandments.” To be faithful is to be trustworthy and reliable and God is all of those things and so much more. We need to continually have this longing and desire burning in our hearts, “I need to gain more of the fruits of the Spirit, I need to be more cleansed and purified, I need to be filled with divine nature!” There is always more divine nature to work towards. The same applies to love, joy, peace, longsuffering and all the other fruits of the Spirit. The more I “die,” the more I can receive genuine good thoughts, words and actions, and become more and more righteous and holy. This is a continual process: something of myself always has to die in order to make place for divine nature. Obtaining the fruit of the Spirit: a life-long process … Therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, put on tender mercies, kindness, humility, meekness, longsuffering bearing with one another, and forgiving one another …” Colossians 3:5,12-13. “Therefore put to death your members which are on the earth: fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry. This is my sinful nature, or “flesh” and this is what needs to die in order to gain the precious fruit of goodness! We want to show goodness to our family, our colleagues, and those we meet along our way, but then something doesn’t go the way I thought it would, or someone says something a certain way, and I sense the opposite of goodness in myself. But when it dies, then new life comes – we get more and more of the fruits of the Spirit the more we put to death our sinful nature through obedience to the Spirit – through walking in the Spirit.įor example, goodness is one of the fruits of the Spirit. In order for this wheat or fruit to grow, something has to die. “Most assuredly, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the ground and dies, it remains alone but if it dies, it produces much grain.” John 12:24. Read more about each individual fruit of the Spirit here. The fruit of the Spirit is the result of walking in the Spirit. It is the new and refreshing life that becomes part of my nature when, in obedience to the Spirit, I allow myself to be cleansed and die to sin. The fruit of the Spirit is the life of Christ it is divine nature. The fruit of the Spirit is essentially the opposite of sin and egotism. Some of the fruits of the Spirit are described in Galatians 5:22-23, “But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control.”
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