It seems so funny to me now that I used to have so much pride. Pride kept me from seeing and enjoying so much of God’s Kingdom of light. I always had a gnawing sense that I was competing with everyone else, even other Christians, on so many levels. These days, I want to stay as far away as I can from pride.
Humility is so wonderful. It just feels so right in my spirit and keeps me open to Jesus and the Holy Spirit and all the liberty and life They have for me.
Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.
Galatians 5:19-21
I used to have a Jesus-deprived life. My life had a lot of the works of the flesh operating in it and, as a result, I had little real peace, love, contentment, rest and joy. I couldn’t accept the fact that God was in control of my life and that I could really trust Him all the time. I’ve come to know that life’s better with Jesus in it. The fruit of the Spirit can replace the works of the flesh if we’ll humbly keep asking (and cooperating with) the Holy Spirit to continue His work in us.
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance: against such there is no law. And they that are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts. If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit. Let us not be desirous of vain glory, provoking one another, envying one another.
Galatians 5:22-26
God bless,
Mark