Daily devotion – Friday 6th August 2021
The fruit of the Spirit is Love…..
Love – must not be treated as a small word, we cannot simply just pass over it and imagine that there is nothing much in it, that it is merely a feeling, a sentimental word – no!
As Paul is detailing this beautiful Scripture in Galatians, there surges through his soul all the harmonies of the Christian life. For the fruit of the Spirit – this Love – is a great orchestra and the quality of the music and the harmonies it produces are joy, long-suffering, kindness, good ness, faithfulness, meekness and temperance!
If you have the fruit of the Spirit, this Love, you have all these things. If you lack love you lack them all!
Joy – this word does not signify an ecstasy which occurs but once, and passing leaves the soul on a deader level than it occupied before it came. That would undervalue this word.
Joy means cheerfulness, gladness, common delight, that peculiar and wonderful quality which, present in the life, transmutes everything into light, peace and happiness. It creates a song in our lives that sings no matter the winter.
Love is a singer that never tires, a nightingale which sings while the sun flames and keeps singing when the rains fall.
It’s seen in the newborn love of youth and maiden, Christ and the Church, of the bridegroom and the bride. It is God’s own illustration.
The prophet wrote – Hos 2:19 “I will betroth you to Me forever; Yes, I will betroth you to Me In righteousness and justice,
In lovingkindness and mercy; – such love takes possession of the heart of youth and maiden, and they are perpetually cheerful!
I pray that today, this beautiful gift from God, His joy will fill your heart and enable you to sing no matter the storm, the cold, the battle….