Love- the Fruit of the Spirit

"Everyone says that love hurts, but that's not true. Loneliness hurts. Rejection hurts. Losing someone hurts. Envy hurts. Everyone gets these things confused with love, but in reality, love is the only thing in this world that covers up all the pain..."

Gal 5:16-25 talks about the Freedom we find in Christ and life by the Spirit.

If you live by the Spirit you will not gratify the desires of the sinful nature- the acts of a sinful nature are obvious:- sexual immorality, impurity and debauchery; idolatry, witchcraft; hatred, discord, jealousy, fits of rage, selfish ambition, desenssion, factions and envy; drunken ness, orgies and the like but the Fruit of the Spirit is Love.
Where love is there is:-

Joy is the strength of that love,
Peace is the love's security,
Patience is the love's enduring power,
Kindness is the expression of love,
Goodness is the virtue of love,
Faithfulness humility to wait on God even when seemingly He is a distant miles away,
Gentleness in handling others with courtesy and respect and
Selfcontrol that you may be regarded Wise...

True love (the kind-a which is the fruit of the Spirit) covers up the pain

 

Christian Character is produced by the Holy Spirit not by the mere moral discipline of trying to live by law.

 

Col 3:12-15 gives us clear rules of holy living- that as God's chosen people we ought to clothe ourselves with Compassion, Kindness, Humility, Gentlesness, bearing with one another and forgiving. And over all these vitues put on LOVE which binds them all together in perfect unity. 1 Cor 13:1-13 Love is the most excellent way.

We must be motivated by LOVE, the kind-a that is the Fruit of the Spirit

 

God is love