Growing up with older siblings I often watched tv shows that kids my ages didn't watch. Our favorite show, which would be the only show I have so far have watched from beginning to end. (I cried like a baby when the last episode aired my senior year of high school) for thirty minutes we would all gather around Dad's gianormous 1970's t.v. and for that time there would not be any fussing or fighting. The show had a lot to do with how much I loved it but also it was the time I got to spend with my brother and sister that I also enjoyed,
My freshman year of college I found four girls with a love for FRIENDS as big as mine. We we stay up late watching episodes, and putting of the major load of work that needed to be done. We also found that we all had personality traits that went along with each character. My roommate was Monica and I of course was Phoebe. For anyone who knows me this isn't a far fetch. She's flighty, makes up crazy songs, and most of the time has no idea. One of the things she used to say is "What does it mean?"
Well in true Phoebeesquic fashion I asked myself that same question today. What does it mean to act like Christ and put on the fruits of the spirit daily. Why I asked myself this question....I was talking about it today with my kids. As we were going over the fruits of the spirits and what our lives should look like to put them on daily. I really had to ask my self do I?
"but the fruit of Spirit is love, joy, peace, kindness, longsufferning, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness,self-control, against such there is no law. Galatians 5:22. Does my life look anywhere close to being these things daily? What does it mean to do this daily? Most days I have some of the fruits of the spirit but I am always lacking in some area. So what does it look like for me to in compass all of them all day long. What does this mean for my life?
One of the areas I thought I as "good" in I totally flipped a lid the other weekend in. When it comes to faithfulness and knowing that God will supply our needs, I've always been "good" in. I guess that is why I am such a laid back person, but the other weekend I didn't trust God like i should have. So at night about a certain mattered I had been worrying about it and worrying and needing a sleeping pill to go to sleep about. So I had asked Kris about and asked Kris about and each time he told me the same answer "I don't know". Well I heard a conversation he was having with his mom and which he did tell her the answer that had kept me up at night a fretting about. Let's just say I am amazed that we are still married. Poor the thing I let out all my anger and frustration that I had on him. All those long nights worrying, all the mind wondering back to that one thing. All because I didn't trust the God who had brought be through the valley and through the desert and back to the other side.
I don't think this is just a question for me but for you as well.....What does it mean to have the fruits of the Spirit daily in your life?"
