It was a major FAIL. It happened at the breakfast table as Anaya was eating breakfast. My Bible was open to Galatians 5:22-26, and I was writing in my journal about how I was going to spend the upcoming weeks focusing on the fruits of the Spirit. Spending a week focusing on each of the fruits of the Spirit, and I was kicking it off by beginning to focus on love. As I was writing down the fruits of the Spirit in my journal Anaya, in typical two year old fashion, knocked her bowl of cereal off the table sending milk and Peanut Butter Crunch plummeting to the ground beneath. In retrospect here was my first chance to respond in love. To respond in a way that would be even remotely consistent to love and the fruits of the Spirit. After all, I had just read, and was in the process of writing the verses down so it should have been easy to respond in love! However, I FAILED. I FAILED big time. No I didn't scream and get really mad at Anaya, but love was absent from the way that I responded. After I got the mess cleaned up (which consisted of getting our dog out of the bedroom) and got a new bowl of cereal poured, I sat back down before my Bible and journal and realized how badly I failed.
My failure made me realize how desperately I need the Spirit of God to work in me and through me. Galatians 5:17-18, "For the sinful nature desires what is contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit what is contrary to the sinful nature." I desperately need the Holy Spirit if I am going to exhibit the fruits of the Spirit in my life. I need to yield my life to the Holy Spirit, I need to discern the voice of the Holy Spirit, I need to spend more time in the Word, in prayer, in fellowship with brothers and sisters in Christ, in order that the desires of the Spirit would become stronger and stronger and the desires of the sinful nature would become weaker and weaker.
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