No FRUIT Without The FIGHT S6e24 Gal5:17

I had the opportunity to meet the BEST FARMER in Mozambique.  She was universally recognized as such by her peers.  The vote was unanimous.  When I inquired as to why she had the best yielding plot in the nation, she humbly described dragging bags of manure and working the soil long before the sun came up; doing battle with every bug that desired to eat the leaves or fruit (she went through every plant and picked them off by hand all day long), etc. She did battle every hour of every day in her corner of the world.

Here's the big point of her story and our section of Galatians 5:  You don't get the FRUIT without the FIGHT.  Everybody wants the FRUIT of the Spirit.  Who doesn't want love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, gentleness and self control?  How do you get it? By magic? Poof?  In the context of the passage, it is by opposition, walking the war,  being against, being kept from doing, and NOT gratifying.  This is what it means to walk by the Spirit; live by the Spirit; and be led but the Spirit.  FIGHT! and then you will get FRUIT! You don't get the FRUIT without the FIGHT.

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