It would seem that God is shouting, and I’m supposed to learn, change, confess, hear something as I look at the Fruit of the Spirit.  Because my lesson with my Monday group is Romans 7.  Which is the very same message as Galatians 5.  Not under the law, Christ fulfilled the law, the struggle with the sinful nature and the Spirit residing in the same space….AND my group on Thursday night is doing the exact same text from Galatians 5 asking the question: “What is the role of the Holy Spirit in transforming us into the image o Christ?”  I’m listening!

So here are my thoughts for Day 1:

It helps to know that while I live here on earth, this will always be the struggle.  Good/Evil, God’s best/my flesh duking it out for my mind, my heart and my affections.  Not comforting, but a release from self hate or shame because the struggle will never be won until the day I reach the promised, holy place of perfection.  That is the hope I live with – not that someday I’ll get it right.  But that Jesus Christ my Lord has already made it right.  And because I recognize my sin and my heart desires to be made new, someday it will be.  And until that day he’s blessed me with the comforter, truth giver, counselor, Word,  and the the body of Christ.  Oh how he loves me.