Miracles Will Happen

Scripture:

Galatians 5:18-26 (ESV)

But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.  Now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality, idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions, envy, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.  But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law.  And those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.

If we live by the Spirit, let us also keep in step with the Spirit.  Let us not become conceited, provoking one another, envying one another.

Devotion:

If you look around you can see hatred, envy, animosity, impurity, immorality, and the list goes on.  But if we live by the Spirit we are above all that.  We have it in us to show and give kindness, patience, goodness, gentleness, and most of all love.  It doesn’t matter who we are or what our past is.  God loves us, each and everyone of us.  He loves us so much that Christ came, lived, suffered, and died for us.  He did this so that through Him we can have a restored relationship with God.  Through Him we are filled with His spirit and can live better lives filled with the fruits of the Spirit.

It does not mean life is easy or that it will miraculously become perfect.  But if each of us commit our lives to Christ and allow the Holy Spirit to work in us we can live out the fruits of the spirit.  If each of us offers love, patience, kindness, gentleness to others think of how much better things would be.  If we put others first, before ourselves, as Christ did think about how much better our communities would be and how much stronger our families would be.  Putting someone else’s needs and wants before yours will work miracles in your relationships and miracles in our communities.

I challenge each of us to try putting someone else’s desires and needs before our own.  Think of others first.  You might not see the results the first few times.  Rest assured if you keep at it you will see changes occur…  Miracles will happen…  Let us get rid of hate and selfishness.  Let us rid ourselves of the fruits of the world, fruits of the enemy.  Take on the fruits of the Sprit by allowing the Holy Spirit to come into your life and make a difference…