Excerpt Oct 20 from The Freshness Of The Spiritual Fruit Keeps Us From Spoiling The moisture of the spiritual fruit seals in the freshness of our inner life. Everything fresh, alive, civil, and socially constructive is found within the moisture of the spiritual fruit. Some people relate to the fruit of the spirit in the same way bacteria relates to warm and moist places, which is by invading the area in such a way as to cause spoiling. In essence, bacteria will infest the fruitfulness of inner life in ways that attempt to cause staleness, corruption, or rotting of the soft tenderness within the human spirit. When we feel set aside, placed on the shelf, or otherwise impeded from living a life through the blossoms of spiritual fruitfulness we might also experience circumstances that attempt to spoil our divine qualities. That is the beginning stages of the spoiling of inner life. We begin to feel put-off by the surrounding environment and unfruitful sentiments begin to manifest. We become infested with various degrees of hate, cruel intentions, hostile confrontations, aggression, harsh attitudes, pessimism, spats of evilness, despair, being out of control with peers, being impatient with rude and arrogant behaviors, and feeling spots of fatal attitudes. However, even in those worst circumstance when we feel put-off by the surrounding and corruptible environment the spiritual fruit is able to keep us fresh. By responding to the soft tenderness of our soul we preserve our inner life. That preservation comes to us through the fruti of patience, self-control, perseverance, goodness, faith, joy, meekness, gentleness, peace, kindness, goodwill, and love. The freshness of the spiritual fruit keeps us from spoiling. youtu.be/vAjSeIpSXQw
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