What the Spirit brings is very different: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, trustfulness, gentleness and self-control.
Gal.5:22,23
Saint Paul is writing to the church in Galatia, addressing the overly Greek philosophies that were infiltrating that church. Saint Paul's solution to the humanistic influence is to call on less of man's way of thinking and act more in the Spirit's.
This same tension between fleshly and spiritual passions still exists in the Church today... still exists in me today. When I look at what Saint Paul lists as gifts of the Spirit I say, "Yes, that is the sort of person I want to be!" How to I obtain this? Saint Paul goes on...
"...crucify all self-indulgent passions and desires. Since the Spirit is our life, let us be directed by the Spirit." Gal.5:25
Today I actively reject those earthly passions and then let myself be directed by the Holy Spirit.
Come Holy Spirit, fall afresh on me. Fill me with your power, satisfy my needs. Only You can make me whole, give me strength and make me grow. Come Holy Spirit, fall afresh on me.
Little Flower, please pray for me.
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