HAVE YOU EVER ASKED YOURSELF, “WHAT DOES IT LOOK LIKE TO CULTIVATE THE FRUIT OF THE SPIRIT IN MY LIFE?” WHEN CONTEMPLATING THIS QUESTION, I THOUGHT TO MYSELF WHERE DOES THIS BEGIN? AS I CONTINUED TO MEDITATE ON THIS VERY IMPORTANT QUESTION, THE SPIRIT QUICKENED ME WITH THE WORD HUMILITY. CULTIVATION BEGINS WITH HUMILITY.
IF WE ARE COMMITTED TO AGREEING WITH GOD AND SEEING THINGS AS HE SEES THEM, WE MUST PROCESS EVERY SITUATION WITH HIS WORD. NOT ALLOWING OUR OWN WAY OF THINKING TO GET IN THE WAY OF HOW GOD DIRECTS HIS SPIRIT TO PRODUCE WITHIN US THE BEST POSSIBLE FRUIT. HUMILITY WILL YIELD SUBMISSION AND OBEDIENCE; THUS, FERTILIZING THE SPIRITUAL LAND FOR PROPER GROWTH. IT IS CULTIVATED BY SUBMITTING TO AND OBEYING THE SPIRIT’S QUICKENING, THE WORD OF GOD, AND THE VICTORY PROVIDED BY JESUS THROUGH HIS SHED BLOOD AND RESURRECTION.
THE WORD CULTIVATE MEANS TO GROW OR TO TEND, TO IMPROVE OR PREPARE LAND AS BY PLOWING OR FERTILIZING FOR RAISING CROPS, OR TO PROMOTE THE GROWTH OF. ARE WE WILLING TO HUMBLE OURSELVES BY SUBMITTING TO AND OBEYING ALL THAT GOD REQUIRES, SURRENDERING EVERYTHING? ARE WE READY TO ALLOW GOD’S SPIRIT TO IMPROVE THE QUALITY OF THE FRUIT WE ARE TO BEAR?
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