Daily Devotion For June 5

Good Fruit

Shortly after my husband and I arrived in Mexico, we discovered a Flea Market one day as we were riding through town. We found out that they held it every Sunday morning and always in the same place.

We decided to visit a few weeks later and we found it a fascinating event. In fact we enjoyed it so much that we used to go quite often.

The vendors took over an entire street. They set up their stalls on both sides of the road and even down some of the side streets. We were amazed at how much variety of produce there was. They had everything - clothes, shoes, makeup, electronics, kid's stuff and lots of different food stalls.

We started at the one end and began to walk slowly to the other end. As we were busy walking we saw a big fruit and vegetable stall, so we went to have a look at it. They had a lot of lovely fruit on display, and we bought a lot of different varieties like peaches, nectarines and strawberries.

When we came home we began to eat the fruit. Some of it was lovely and tasted like something out of heaven. But we discovered that some of it was rotten on the inside. It looked fine on the outside, but it was not so nice on the inside. In fact it was horrible, because some of the fruit even had worms in them.

In your spiritual life there are also two kinds of fruit that you can produce. The good fruit is from the Lord and the bad fruit is from the enemy.

Satan wants to come and cause bad fruit or bad results to take place in you as a believer. He wants to make your life like the fruit that has worms in it. He wants to try to make you react badly; to bring fear, bitterness, failure and all sorts of negative things into your life.

But there is good news here. You can have good fruit in your life, because the Lord has given you the fruit of the Spirit. Galatians 5:22 and 23 says,

But the fruit of the Spirit is [agape] love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,
Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.

What is showing in your life right now? If you are battling with anything negative, why not use that good fruit that the Lord has given you? It is really simple. You just need to choose to let the Holy Spirit take control of your life. You will soon feel a change in your life and go from negative to positive.

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Thank you Lord that you have given us good fruit - the fruit of the Spirit. Thank you that as believers we can use it to counteract the works of the enemy.

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Today may you choose to let the Holy Spirit be in charge and let the fruit of the Spirit show in your life.