Edited, with contributions from David Groves, Susan Horobin, Brian Lloyd, Ruth Lloyd, Lorraine Low & Sylvia Penny
Galatians 5:22-23 is such a familiar passage of Scripture, so familiar, in fact, that we have a tendency to simply read over it. However, we should stop … not only to consider each of the fruit and meditate upon each one … but also to examine ourselves, to ascertain how much of each one we exhibit and whether or not there are any grave deficiencies.