God’s Love

Love is the fruit of the Spirit. In that fruit we will find sections of…

Joy, Peace, Patience, Kindness, Generosity, Faithfulness, Gentleness, Self-control…

You will find all of these characteristics included within God’s love.

If you have the love of God within you, you will also have joy, peace, patience, kindness, generosity, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control.

It’s not different fruits. It is One. And that fruit is called LOVE. God’s love. In his love all the other sections are found.

When we are filled with the Holy Spirit by accepting the Lord Jesus as our personal Lord and Savior we are filled with God’s love, his joy, his peace, his patience, and kindness and generosity, his faithfulness, gentleness and his self-control.

His love has to be cultivated and practiced so that all the other qualities will also emerge within us. As we mature in Him all of his attributes will also mature within us.

God is love.

When we are sad, we can still have his joy. When everything around us is in chaos we can still have his peace that passes all understanding. When there is stress and uncertainty and we are stretched beyond human limits, his patience will sustain us. The world can be so mean and hateful, but being filled with God’s love we can still be filled with his kindness. Greed and selfishness are all around us but we don’t have to participate we can be full of God’s generosity because of His love. With commitments being broken in marriages, employments, friendships, partnerships, we can remain faithful because of God’s love within us. People can be rough around the edges and hateful, offendable and in a rage but God’s love will display his gentleness in the way we interact toward others, even, if they do not behave the same way. And last but not least, God’s love helps us to practice his self-control so that we are a power-house under his control, anointed by him to serve and honor him. Self, has to die, because of the Love of God so that he can live, in us.

It begins and ends with the love of God. His love in us gives us Holy Spirit power to live this life in obedience to the one who created all things. The one who came to earth, died and resurrected so that we could be renewed and live forever in Him and He in us!

Let God’s love rule our hearts and all the rest of God’s attributes will manifest in every area of our lives.

The fruit you want to be produced in you is Love. From there all the rest will follow.

Do you want Joy, Peace, Patience, Kindness, Generosity, Faithfulness, Gentleness, Self-control? Then eat the fruit of the Spirit which is Love. God’s love!

~Marla Shaw O’Neill January 6, 2022

Galatians 5:22-23 New Living Translation ²² But the Holy Spirit produces this kind of fruit in our lives: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, ²³ gentleness, and self-control. There is no law against these things!