good. all the time.

i can't tell you how many times i've said something like "i just don't have self-control". or heard someone claim they have no patience. or peace. you name it. we think we just don't have it. like we were just born without it or something. what a sick lie satan has planted in our hearts to make us feel less-than. to make it easier to defeat us.


if we have christ we have the spirit. the holy spirit LIVES in us. in our hearts. all the time. whether we acknowledge him or not. and the thing about the spirit is that he is good. always. he is always good. if we have the spirit we have love. if we have the spirit we have joy. peace. patience. kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control. if we have the spirit we have the fruit of the spirit. all the time. it lives in us.


some of us have to search for it. i know i have a lot of layers of "me" to pull back to reveal the self-control i know is hidden in there somewhere. but it is. it is there. and it is good. all the time. it's all there. i am not doing this on my own. and man what a gift from god to be blessed with his fruit living in our hearts. all the time.




so it doesn't matter how i feel. i have joy. at my disposal at all times whenever i choose to get over myself and reach for it. no matter how much i fail to produce my own fruit, i carry it my heart at all times through the spirit.


i just need to move over and let him shine through me. he must become greater, i must become less.