Synergy

Galatians 5:22-23  (NCV)
But the Spirit produces the fruit of love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control. There is no law that says these things are wrong.

Notice how it reads when I turn around the list of the fruit of the Spirit.  The first list is from the verse above and the 2nd list is tweaked a bit.  I wanted to put similar words in each list together, thus the odd spacing:

1)  self-Control,  gentleness, faithfulness, goodness, kindness, patience, peace,         joy,          love.

2)  I  control the gentleness, faithfulness, goodness, kindness, patience, peace and joy of my love.

For the fruit of the Spirit to grow richly in my life, cooperation of my self and the Spirit is required.

The Spirit of God is never a bully.  He won’t force mature fruit upon me.  He doesn’t make me do anything.  He has come along-side so that I can be and do so much more than I could on my own.  That’s grace.   It’s an amazing synergy.

I love this life.

Copyright 2013  Leah Lambert Smith