FRUITS OF THE SPIRIT
The 57th Day of Love
Memory Verse— Galatians 5:22. The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace.
The Prayer— Give us your Spirit, O Lord, and we know that love will come.
The Affirmation— Today I realize that love grows in a garden of related truth.
The Scripture Lesson— Galatians 5:22-26
The Meditation
When love is sought as an isolated virtue, then it
may be experienced as an imitated vice.
There are people who believe that God is love, and
then they may say love is God. This is idolatry.
God is also justice, truth, judgment and eternal
all-knowing wisdom.
The tragedy of the universalist is that he has to
have two gods: one for the here and now, and
one very different for the hereafter.
If you erase moral distinction from the heart of
the universe, you make heaven less honorable
than the finest community on earth.
Every fruit of the Spirit makes us a better related
person, to God, to others, to ourselves and to
eternal truth.
To seek the fruit of love without wisdom or moral
distinction is to reach again for the apple in the
garden of Eden. For God still walks in the cool
of the day saying, “Adam, where are you?”
