After the chastening...

Spiritual Fruit.

Php 1:11  Being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are by Jesus Christ, unto the glory and praise of God. 

Heb_12:11  Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby.

Eph 5:9  (For the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth;) 

Gal 5:22  But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, 

Gal 5:23  Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.

Fruits of God's grace.

Fruits are the life we live.  Spiritual fruits are what we long to produce as those who are branches on the Vine of Christ Jesus our Lord.

These Spiritual fruits are comprised of goodness, righteousness, truth, love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, faith, meekness, and temperance.

The people who possess these fruits as a result of their life with Christ are truly BLESSED.

My only hope remains in my Savior, He and He alone can help me to produce spiritual fruit, of my own I can produce none. The Spirit in me must do it, I feel so very far from bearing spiritual fruit.

Love.

Joy.

Peace.

Longsuffering.

Gentleness.

Goodness.

Faith.

Meekness.

Temperance.

I need to be chastened severely if that's what it takes for me to yield the peaceable fruit of righteousness.  Not only do I need to be chastened, I need to LEARN from that chastening experience. It does us NO good to be chastened only to revert to the very thing that caused our chastening in the first place. We are NOT exercised by the chastening if we succumb readily to our old ways. It's a fight, a fight to yield to our Savior. It's a battle to wage if we are to be God's.  Satan will NEVER stop trying to make us his, never, not for a moment. And if we are standing in our Spiritual armor given to us by the Holy Spirit, we will prevail against Satan through the GRACE of our SAVIOR. 

We would be loving!

We would be joyful!

We would be peaceful!

We would be longsuffering!

We would be gentle!

We would be good!

We would be faithful!

We would be meek!

We would be temperate!

Please, Father, we would yield the fruits of YOUR righteousness! Please live in us! Please chasten us in everyway necessary so we would learn from it and be all YOU would have us be, with You making it possible.

Joh_17:22  And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one

Please, Father, please.

Through the give and mercy of our LORD Jesus Christ!

Amen.