Fruit of the Spirit

Fruit of the Spirit
Galatians 5.22-26

The Christmas decorations were spectacular. I went down the street from store to store, and in each window – and indeed in the street itself – there were pretty lights and multicoloured decorations. Every shop seemed to have sparkling trees, alive with parcels, bells, fairies, glass balls, and all kinds of trinkets and decorations.

Or at least, they looked alive. In reality, of course, they weren’t. It was all a show. I went down the same street a month later, as the decorations were being taken down. It was very bleak. The tinsel and coloured balls went back into boxes. The trees were either folded up (they weren’t real, after all) or thrown out. Nothing had actually been growing on them. It looked magnificent, but it was all artificial...

Taken from Paul for Everyone Galatians and Thessalonians – by Tom Wright