MAY 21, Galatians 5:22, 23

People living in Singapore are blessed with an amazing variety of food - we can get any kind of cuisine we want , from Indian, Peranakan, Russian, German to Chinese food. How about fruits? We can also get a huge variety of them here - cherries, strawberries, kiwis and more tropical ones like papayas, pineapples and mangoes. But whatever fruit you may find here, none looks or tastes alike. You cannot find an apple with the same texture or flavour of a durian.

How about the Fruit of the Holy Spirit? It is one fruit, but it has so many parts! How is that possible? Humanly speaking, it is not possible. But you see, our God is the God of impossibilities. And likewise, this fruit of the Holy Spirit is possible only because God makes it so.

Make no mistake – it is very difficult to have the fruit of the Holy Spirit. It is by years of trusting and leaning on God that this fruit can be nurtured.

We have learnt the wonderful characteristics of love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness and goodness. Today we come to the last set of 3 characteristics. They are faith, meekness, and temperance. These 3 characteristics guide the children of God in the way they should behave.

Dear reader, do you have these characteristics? Try to memorise “But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance…”

Write out the 9 characteristics of The Fruit of the Spirit

Thought: Do I have all the 9 characteristics of The Fruit of the Spirit?

Prayer: Heavenly Father, guide me to live for You daily, so that the Fruit of the Spirit can slowly be seen in my life. In Jesus’ name I pray, Amen.