Divine Nature

It is God who works within you — both to will and to do of his good pleasure. All things are yours, including the gravelly part that you don’t like.

He also keeps you steady and close to Him even when things are going well and you might tend to humanly relax and give up.

Faith risks the uncertainties of life on God. You don’t really know what’s going to happen tomorrow, nor do I; but we do know that God is already there.

There are a lot of variables that you can’t control even though you “are busy doing your duty”, as we say. Now, what do you do about them? How do exercise faith?

Showing kindness is a result of God’s working in your life. Kindness is courtesy in action, being helpful. Kindness will make an impression on people.

Longsuffering is a fruit of the Spirit–part of God’s nature. Longsuffering means to be accepting towards all types of people as they are. Spend time with God and ask him to change you.

Another part of God’s nature we may share in is peace. It comes through a right relationship with God, through prayer, through trusting God to handle it and fixing on the Word of God.

Whenever God shows up in our life that’s when the Holy Spirit is in control. The Holy Spirit controlling our life produces the fruits of the Spirit.