If you are anything like me, then you probably don't like Semo (semolina; is the coarse, purified wheat middlings of durum wheat. It's a morsel), and you don't have a genuine reason. Not like I can't eat Semo, I just happened not to like it, in fact, there are many meals I really would rather not eat, except I don't have a choice (which is every time my mom does the cooking). Recently I got thinking, you know the way we all have that food we don't like for no apparent reason, and the way pet peeves work... So this all comes down to the fruit of the Spirit. So (I use this word so much), the fruit of the spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. And for the longest time, I used to believe that it was fruits of the Spirit, that each of these features/characteristics were separate entities and I could handpick the ones I wanted to exhibit.
I had the relationship I had with Semo, with Self-Control, as per comfortable amnesia, while with Joy, I had the relationship I have with pounded yam (absolute love). I literally, treated the fruit of the spirit like an all you can eat buffet and selected the meals I wanted and, I also decided on the portion of meals I can take. So it was like this never-ending aisle of food, that I would waltz into whenever I needed and wanted to.
Now that I'm all grown, and my knowledge base has expanded, it came to me one day, well, my father pointed it out to me, that it's not 'fruits' rather, it's the fruit of the Spirit, and this discovery changed my entire perception. It was an eye-opener, I could no longer select the "fruits" that were compatible with my mood, it's either I eat the semo or leave it for someone who likes it, no poking my hand in, then rendering the remnant useless. It was uniquely strange to me, like someone feeding me a grape and for some weird self-fulfilling reason, I peel the skin before eating it, to be very honest, that ain't a grape anymore... You! My dear has successfully created your own fruit.
The thing is that, the fruit of the spirit is one, it's a package, the full package, you don't get to say, this characteristic aligns with my zodiac sign so I'll see through it. You are either the whole snack or you are not the snack at all. What is shawarma without the wrap (bread)? An entirely different meal, it's still edible but it isn't Shawarma. The same way the Fruit of Spirit works. Once you have Jesus, you are automatically a consumer of the "fruit", and you will finish eating it.
With that... stay blessed and wear a mask 😷
P.S. Also you sometimes don't know how good something tastes until you try it; that was me with Chinese food, now I'm a fan and if possible an ambassador.
Which brings me to Sushi, I need a dramatic explanation of what Sushi tastes like, so that I can kill my uniformed dislike of the meal.
Galatians 5:22-23
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This is so articulated. Welldone
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