If you’ve ever had an emotionally up and down life like I’ve had, you find that it’s such a marvelous thing to meet someone who appears to have the joy of the Lord and Christ’s peace living in them. All questioning and fretting seems to be gone from their life. You just want to stay with them and absorb their Heavenly character, their ability to rest in and trust Jesus.
I’m finding that it’s much more important who I am than what I do for a living. While God leads us into our life’s work, He wants to develop His liberating character in us because He knows that’s what will make us truly happy and secure. When we have Jesus living on the inside of us, we’re at peace and have all of the other fruit of the Spirit alive in us. We soon learn that it’s so much more rewarding to have Christ than anything else.
Jesus loves us so much and desires that we live in His peace all the time. He helps us by giving us the Holy Spirit to plant and grow the fruit of the Spirit in our lives. The more we trust Jesus, the more of each of the fruit of the Spirit we’ll have operating in our lives. Isn’t that wonderful?
5 Trust in the Lord with all (All of Him and none of me. All sounds so restful.) thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. 6 In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.
Proverbs 3:5-6
22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, 23 Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.
Galatians 5:22-23
God bless,
Mark