Meditation

Hi there,

This passage in Galatians is a call to be free. Throughout, Paul has highlighted what we are free from and what we are free for.

We have been given a choice. The choice to choose our "freedom". But this isn't really a choice, because if we choose to indulge in the "acts of the flesh," we have in fact chosen a form of slavery dressed up as freedom.​

If we choose to walk by the Spirit, we are choosing the gifts of love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control.

Today's text is Galatians 5:19-26

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Life by the Spirit

¹³ You, my brothers and sisters, were called to be free. But do not use your freedom to indulge the flesh; rather, serve one another humbly in love. ¹⁴ For the entire law is fulfilled in keeping this one command: “Love your neighbor as yourself.” ¹⁵ If you bite and devour each other, watch out or you will be destroyed by each other.​

¹⁶ So I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh. ¹⁷ For the flesh desires what is contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit what is contrary to the flesh. They are in conflict with each other, so that you are not to do whatever you want.

¹⁸ But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.​

¹⁹ The acts of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity and debauchery; ²⁰ idolatry and witchcraft; hatred, discord, jealousy, fits of rage, selfish ambition, dissensions, factions ²¹ and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I did before, that those who live like this will not inherit the kingdom of God.​

²² But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, ²³ gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law. ²⁴ Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.​

²⁵ Since we live by the Spirit, let us keep in step with the Spirit. ²⁶ Let us not become conceited, provoking and envying each other.

Encouragement

⁶ The mind governed by the flesh is death, but the mind governed by the Spirit is life and peace.

Romans 8:6

Andy​

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