Do you know the difference be tween a pump well and an artesian well? The former has to be kept primed and pumped. The latter just flows forth naturally on its own. God wants us to have real love. Such can look past another's faults. Many people live on cheap substitutes today. Satan will do all in his evil power to cheat us. Nev er accept such standards. Are you looking for real love, real joy, real peace? God says it is the free gift, the fruit of the Spirit. You will never find these blessings anywhere else. Let the Holy Spirit do what He came to do in your life. God has a plan for you and me. He wants us to have an abun dant life produced by the Holy Spirit. Are you experiencing this each day? Start by letting Him do what He came to do. Receive Christ as your own personal Saviour. Then let the Spirit control you. This is His blessed and divine purpose. Have you yielded to Him? Have you asked Him to take control of your life that He might produce this in you? God help you to do it even this very day. CONTROL AND DIRECTION Most people live such sub-nor mal lives that when they see some one living a normal life, it appears to be abnormal. Spirituality is not measured by what we do not do in a negative aspect, but rather by the positive as we show the fruit of the Spirit in our day-by-day exis tence. You see, a person is a spir itual Christian when he lets the Holy Spirit do what He came to do. After conversion through faith in Jesus Christ, the next necessity is proper control and direction which only He can give.
It does not come by our trying to work at it a little harder. Only the Holy Spirit has the power to pro duce this fruit in your life. JOY After this there is the fruit of joy. It almost goes without saying that everyone wants to be happy and contented. God is not opposed to our enjoying life. In fact in I John 14, we read the testimony, "These things have I written unto you that your joy might be full." The Psalm ist declared of the Lord, "In His presence there is fullness of joy. At His right hand there are pleas ures forever more" (Psalm 16:11). Even in the midst of problems and perplexities there can be satisfac tion and contentment. I have heard people say, "If I become a Chris tian I would have to give up all my fun!" Such a person does not know what he is talking about. The fact is one really takes on the reality of joy- . PEACE The next fruit of the Spirit we will consider is peace. Think of all the tranquilizers people are taking today. As one fellow commiser ated, "I have enough problems to give aspirin a headache." God's offer is peace in the midst of it all. His peace passes all understanding (Philippians 4:6, 7). It also can take care of all misunderstandings as well. This was Christ's legacy as described in John 14:27. Do we as His joint heirs really know how rich we are? As believers in Christ, our peace does not depend on what is happening on the outside. It comes from within (I Peter 1:6, 7). This is the great victory we need for our lives.
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