But the Holy Spirit produces this kind of fruit in our lives: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control.
Galatians 5:22-23a NLT
Victory Gardens were vegetable and fruit gardens planted during WWI and WWII to supplement the public food supply during the war effort. It required giving up private residence yard space and public lot areas to be tilled and toiled to produce crops. Rocks and stones had to be removed, weeds and grass dug up and removed, hard ground broken up and worked - all to make room for and to be able to receive seed. It took discipline and commitment, but it produced victorious results.
When we give our lives to Christ, the Holy Spirit comes to produce fruit in our lives. The verses prior to our Promise for Today tell us what rocks, stones and weeds need to be removed from our lives, what hardness of heart needs to be broken up and worked out of our nature. Galatians 5:19-21, When you follow the desires of your sinful nature, the results are very clear: sexual immorality, impurity, lustful pleasures, idolatry, sorcery, hostility, quarreling, jealousy, outbursts of anger, selfish ambition, dissension, division, envy, drunkenness, wild parties, and other sins like these. Let me tell you again, as I have before, that anyone living that sort of life will not inherit the Kingdom of God.
Our lives can be made full of the fruits of the Holy Spirit! Let's make room and till up the soil of our hearts! It will take discipline and commitment, but we can have our Victory Garden.
Prayer:
Father,
Soften our hearts by the washing of water by the Word. Help us to prepare so that the seed sown by the Sower will fall on good soil and produce a bumper crop. We want to walk fully in the fruits of the Holy Spirit. In Jesus' Name we pray. Amen
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