Galatians 5 is a good chapter. (It may seem strange to say it. Aren’t all chapters in the Bible “good”? But I digress…) And I love when Paul describes the life by the Spirit. He reminds us that its easy to distinguish a life by the Spirit and one by the broken humanity, drowning in sin. It’s so easy (and so many of us are good at it) to pick up on the life that lives according to the sinful nature. We pick up on that kind of life in a heartbeat, as soon as they walk into the church. But it’s just as easy to pick up the life that’s lived in the Spirit.

The life in the Spirit has love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. And you can spot that kind of life a mile away.

So as good as I am at examining the fruit of someone else’s life, they are just as good at examining the fruit of my life. I am not saying that I shouldn’t examine someone else’s life; I should! And I am not saying they shouldn’t examine my life; they should! My question is:

What do they see?