Fruit of the spirit: Learning to Walk in Longsuffering, Gentleness, Goodness, and Faith

Last night in our online Bible study, we spent time walking through the Fruit of the Spirit — looking closely at longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, and faith.

These don't automatically appear when we’re filled with the Holy Ghost; they’re spiritual traits we have to intentionally put on as we continue to grow in Christ. Paul reminds us in Galatians 5 that these qualities are the evidence of a life walking according to the standard of Christ. But walking in the Spirit requires us to continually change. It’s daily work — choosing to be patient when we want to react, to be gentle when we’re tested, to do good when it costs us something, and to stay faithful when it would be easier to quit.

Each of these fruits challenges our flesh and desires. They require humility, consistency, and love. But the more we choose to walk in them, the more we reflect the nature of Christ to those around us.

We’ll be finishing our study on the remaining fruits during our next bible study — meekness and temperance — and you’re invited to join us. It’s never too late to grow with us as we learn what it means to truly live out His word.

“But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.” — Galatians 5:22–23

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