Comments by Joan Boney:
As we follow the Spirit of God in the issues of this present life, we find we change through the years.
God puts in us the fruits of the Spirit of God. Gal. 5:22-23
We are often surprised that we didn't react the way we once did when things happen. We're not as hostile as we once were. We're not as violent. We have more patience. All this is from within. It is not that we tried to develop these traits. They developed inside of us as time passed, as we followed the Spirit of God.
Hebrews 8:10 For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put MY laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to ME a people:
That is because God has caused the fruits of the Holy Spirit to come forth in us.
Galatians 5:23-23 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.
We even end up fulfilling the law of God as we walk in the ways shown us by God's Spirit who lives in us.
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