The God Life
Love
Galatians 5:22.23. But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law.
In every one of these “fruits of the Spirit,” there are 2 key things you’ll discover. 1. You can’t make any one of them happen. 2. They are the source of what most anyone really craves in life – they are the things in our sanest moments that we desire more than anything else.
We’re looking for the good life – and God’s offering us the God Life.
God declares that the God Life begins with love, but…What does it mean to love? There’s a reason why these are called fruits of the Spirit. It’s not only that we can’t produce them on our own; it’s that we’re not even sure what it is we’re producing.
Love is powerful. Jesus said that loving the Lord with all your heart, soul and mind and others as yourself summed up the law and the prophets. Love is the one thing that sums up every other directive, every principle. If you get love, you get it all.
Matthew 7:12. So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you, for this sums up the Law and the Prophets.
Philippians 2:3.4. Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit, but in humility consider others better than yourselves. Each of you should look not only to your own interest, but also to the interests of others.
The idea is to understand that the God Life is drastically different and amazingly better than the life we try to live on our own.
2 Peter 1:3. God’s divine power has given us everything we need for life and godliness. And His power is absolutely necessary to change what is unavoidably egocentric about us. We don’t know how to live without the world revolving around ourselves.
Do you dare to live that way? Do you dare consider others as better as or more important than yourself? Do you dare to make your life that kind of life?
