Fruit Of The Spirit Friday Meme - Temperance and Gentleness
Friday, January 25, 2008
Bible Verse of the Day:
Galations 5:22-23
22But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, kindness,
23Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.
I am going to tell you a story that goes with one of the Fruits, and tell me if you think that it goes with it or a different one.
Temperance, and Gentleness. I'm not always these things, as it may be hard to believe from seeing and reading my blog. My blog has a quiet sense to it. It gives off the reflection that I am well-mannered, very ladylike girl who always obeys her parents, and is kind and loving to her siblings. Well, that is not the way it is.
I'm not always kind to my younger siblings, or my older ones for that matter. I get bad attitudes just like everyone else. I may be mad at someone and not want to have anything to do with them, which only leads to strife. The reason it leads to strife is because if one is mad at the other, when the first tries to talk to the mad, the mad is mean, and hurts the firsts' feelings by talking in a mean way. Therefore, you have two mean people who don't want to have anything to do with each other, and are mean to the other children. So, you end up with a house full of mean kids.
Only yesterday I was not loving and kind, now this morning when I was frustrated with Isaac and Caleb because I wanted to finish writing in my journal. But I will tell you of an example that would agree with the paragraph above this one.
The bucks had knocked out their light, as did the does when we went down to feed them yesterday morning. When we came up, and I had just gotten all of my barn clothes off, and put my nice blue skirt on, Eric comes and tells me that we needed to put new lights in. I got angry because I didn't want to go out in the cold again and smell like the barn anymore. So, as a result, I was in a bad mood. We had to see if we could find two 60-watt bulbs in the addition because the darn goats had broken all of the ones we put it there. After not finding not one, we took a 40-watt down there, and since I was in a bad mood, I wasn't listening to Eric about how we needed one for the bucks as well.
When I thought I would be able to go in, Eric tells me, "I need another light." I got angry about this as well. (I had a headache from hitting my head on the garage door, which I couldn't see because of my hood.) I was upset, and wanted to go in. I stood on our porch while he got another light bulb.
While I was waiting for him to finish installing the new bulb, I was feeling rather sad at the way I was acting toward my brother. I knew it wasn't his fault that I had hit my head, and not his fault I hadn't wanted to go back down there. It was mine and mine alone. I usually feel sick when I am mean to my younger siblings and I know I shouldn't be, as I did then. I was not paying attention to how Eric might be feeling, just my own selfish feelings. I wasn't loving my brother with a Christian love; I was loving myself and nursing my own selfish feelings, hateful words and actions.
Last night, before Mom prayed with us, she asked us to ask the people we had offended to forgive us. I asked Eric to forgive me for the way I had been treating him. Then I asked God to forgive me for the way I had been acting toward my brother. It made me feel better knowing that I would have another chance to be kind and loving to my brothers and sisters tomorrow, and that I had not only been given forgiveness from my brother, but from the Lord also. Why don't we reflect on this verse: "25If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit." You can read the entire Fruit of the Galations 5:22-23
Rachel
I hope you have enjoyed reading the thoughts of a thirteen-year-old girl from the country."You can do all things through CHRIST who strengthens you!" Philippians 4:13
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