Engineered By Christ

A spoon full of sugar may help the medicine go down, but our sweet Ella-girl will tell you it makes her wild!  That’s actually her campaign promise for sugar: she promises if she can have a sucker, she won’t let it make her wild!

 

This may seem profound: God is the true source of Godly fruits.  “The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such thins there is no law.” (Galatians 5:22-23.  Try as we will, we cannot manufacture patience – it eventually wears thin and out; we cannot produce peace – eventually a warring spirit comes; we cannot control self – eventually all control is lost!  There is much debate about genetically modified organisms (GMO), their benefits and risks.  While things occurring outside of nature are suspect, there is nothing suspicious about what is spiritually modified by Almighty God.  Left to ourselves – the natural, sinful man – we will not bear Godly fruit; we bear only fruit that occurs from the natural, sinful man: hate, hostility, and such as fill the news daily.  Much like too much sugar causes Ella to act wildly – life apart from God carries huge risks.  Yes, we learn to abide by laws of the land, act neighborly, even show random kindness to others but it’s manufactured not natural!  Paul wrote “But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh.” (Galatians 3:16).  When we are spiritually engineered by Christ, the fruits of His Spirit emerge and we walk accordingly with The Father and with others.  I suppose we must consider who’s the engineer of the fruit we bear: is it ourselves or is it God?