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What are your symptoms?
When I was a little girl I was a Missionette which is like girls scouts in the Assembly of God churches and we had different verses we memorized. “Galatians 6:22-23: but the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, a quiet mind, kind acts, well-doing, faith, Gentle behavior, control over desires: against such, there is no law” was a verse we got a badge for that over the years I forgot to live by that verse. I allowed the cares of the world to choke my Joy, steal my Peace, wind my mind like a tornado, got so caught up in myself I forgot about the needs of others, aggressiveness, and selflessness filled my day. I found myself so far from God that I couldn’t even see him or myself. That all changed by 1 action on my part, I fell on my knees and cried out to him from my pit I dug for myself. I cried out to my creator and I was
REBORN. It took work on my part every day, reading his word doing bible studies, and seeing him so gently showing me what I had to work on about myself. As I took baby steps in just a few short months after watering that little seed I planted I have a huge tree of love, joy, peace, a quiet mind, kind acts, well-doing, faith, Gentle behavior, control over desires! I find that people are drawn to me because of the light in my eyes and I make it a point to do kind acts everywhere I go. I don’t even recognize my old self anymore, it seems like a different life and you know
WHAT? Because it was a different life, a life of sin. So that is a
HUGE marker of my walk with God, how many fruits of the spirit do you exhibit daily? And if you have an off day how quickly do you get back into the word and back into prayer. We have to after we stumble
JUMP back up into the same spot we were before. Not to allow the devil to whisper and lie to you that you’ve done too much. As long as you are still breathing it’s
NOT TOO LATE you can fall to your knees at any time and cry it to your creator for help and salvation. When you read the word we see story after story of the same thing, someone turning away from God and then after hardship and troubles coming back to him. Those stories are there as examples to us that nothing can separate us from the
LOVE of God. Think about the worst thing you have done, guess what the fact you’re reading this means it’s
NOT TOO LATE. Your addiction, your unfaithfulness, your anger, your self-loathing, your ungodliness are outward symptoms of an inward spiritual problem. The battle is for your soul and it is something you can see outward symptoms of as we get further away from God. The same holds true the closer we get to God we can see outward signs instead of symptoms of the fruits of the Spirit. Love, Joy, Peace, Patience, Kindness, Goodness, Faithfulness, Gentleness, and Self-control. So the question is are you showing symptoms or signs? With all this
CO-VID talk today we keep hearing the word symptoms, what are yours? If they are not fruits of the Spirit, I pray that you get into prayer and the word to change your symptoms to fruits.
This morning while spending time with the Lord the Holy Spirit whispered the word COURAGE to me. That is what has been missing the last few days in my walk.
