Tuesday, February 26, 2002
Tuesday, February 26, 2002
If we live by the Spirit, let us also be guided by the Spirit.
There is a legend of a great teacher who had a strange experience while walking through an
orchard on a windy day. Coming to a fence which divided the grove from an adjoining forest,
he imagined hearing the different types of trees talking to each other. Boastfully a maple tree
said to a nearby fruit tree, "Why don't your leaves rustle in the breeze like ours so that you can
be heard from a distance?" The fruit tree replied, "We don't need such useless fluttering to
draw attention to our presence; our fruit speaks for us!" And that's our lesson for the day!
People experience God in different ways. But the test is--are we bearing fruit?
(Galatians 5.25
NRSV)
The fruit of the Spirit, says Paul, is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,
meekness, temperance. Does your religious experience make you more loving, more peaceful,
more trusting, more humble? If it does, then no matter what that experience is, you are not far
from the Kingdom.
God of love, joy, peace... may all I do today help me to come closer to your great kingdom.
Amen.
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