October 27, By Their Fruits We Will Know Them We can easily judge the character of a person by how they treat the softness of the spiritual fruit. The relationship a person, or group of people, has to the fruitfulness of our inner life says a lot about their character. If someone does not allow love to blossom in their own spirit then how could we expect them to relate to the spirit of love in others? Definitely, the character of a person becomes very visible in the light of the spiritual fruit. A disrespectful attitude to the qualities of kindness and goodwill would make a person respond to charitable establishments and philanthropists with cruel attitudes full of ill-intentions. Likewise, it is all too common the knowledge we have of violence, aggression, and harshness of those having no regard for the traits giving people the spirit of peace, meekness, and gentleness. We usually use terms such as tyrants, instigators, or terrorists, to describe the character of people who oppose the serenity existing in the community and inner life of others. Furthermore, what kind of person would want others to be full of sadness, pessimism, despair, and evilness? We would immediately say the character of that person is dishonorable and it would be someone we would want to disassociate ourselves from. Even then, when people do not allow the good fruit of joy, goodness, and faith to live within their own soul then they are disseminating an ominous, dark, and pessimistic mood into their environment. Moreover, fatalities, out of control behaviors, and reckless impulsiveness comes about from situations that cause us to lose our desire to persevere in life, to berate the value of patience, or to mock self-control. But, if a person is hostile to the spirit of patience, self-control, and perseverance in others then they are contributing to the abrupt destruction of people within the community. The character of that person would be known in undesirable or unfruitful terms. However, the character of a spiritually fruitful person is full of kindness, goodwill, meekness, gentleness, joy, goodness, patience, self-control, love, peace, faith, and perseverance. By their fruits we know their attitudes towards the fruitfulness of inner life. youtu.be/SSCzDykng4g
Posted on: Mon, 27 Oct 2014 16:24:06 +0000
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