Follow this thought with me. You get saved. Immediately, the Holy Spirit takes up residence in your life. Along with the Spirit, comes His fruit. You naturally display this fruit, until your flesh demands its old position as boss. At this point, you battle within as to who is going to take charge of your heart, your dead self or the living Spirit.
Whom we choose has no effect on your name written in the Lamb’s Book of Life; your salvation is eternally secured. (John 10:27-30). However, this choice, as to who will reign, is the only visual others have of the changing power of the Holy Spirit in your life.
The Spirit will never leave you nor forsake you, but if you continually quench the Spirit you can cause His fruit to decay, leaving a sour display of the love of God.
~ By your fruit you are known.
~ All mankind has fruit.
~ Each life will produce something.
~ Life will produce the matter of the heart.
As you walk in the Spirit, His fruit begins to pour out of you. The Spirit enables you to become something new, someone full of sweet Fruit with a heart ready to submit to God’s leading. In Matthew 7, we see the Holy Spirit desires to lead us down the road less traveled, with kindness towards others and with open eyes toward hypocrisy.
Ultimately, the choice is ours to make.
Day by day, moment by moment. Prayers to you as you walk in the Spirit!
***Excerpt from The Beautiful Reward; Pages 68-69
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