Short Devotions by Doris Holmberg Wolters
I am pleased this week to share more spiritual insights from Doris Holmberg Wolters:
Fruit of the Spirit
If you want the fruit of the Holy Spirit to be evidenced in your life, if you want to bear fruit, you must first let your roots grow deep.
Do this by drawing up nourishment from, and continually growing in the Lord.
Then only can you blossom and produce fruit that will be desired. The fruit will then be plucked, tasted, devoured, digested and absorbed by new believers.
Those seeds grow and they in turn produce fruit, and the cycle will continue.
2 Timothy 2:12, Colossians 2:6&7, Galatians 5:22&23
Cleansing
Christ’s blood is the soap, the detergent, the antiseptic that can wash away all the grit and grime of sin that wants to cling to us. Sin that is imbedded in us and hides the beauty and fragrance of the object of his love … our humanity.
Before we can be cleansed, we need to use the pre-spotting agent of confession and acknowledgement of sin in our lives.
For some spots (sins) it might take some scrubbing.
We may have to deal with the sin, make it right, and even ask forgiveness of someone we may have hurt. We may need to work to eradicate some desires that Satan, or self, has planted within us.
Then we come to Him, and claim this promise:
“But if we confess our sins to him, he can be depended on to forgive us and to cleanse us from every wrong. And it is perfectly proper for God to do this for us, because Christ died to wash away our sins.
(1 John 1:9)
Our Memory
In our youth, our memory is pliable like clay. What we commit to it is pressed-in for life.
In our latter years, our mind either becomes like stone, which is difficult to permanently etch anything in. Or it is like gel, you try to memorize, but it all runs together and is lost.
God admonishes us to hide his Word in our hearts. That is why memorizing scripture should become a part of us. Especially when we are young.
“I have hidden your word in my heart, that I might not sin against you. Blessed are you, O Lord; teach me your principles. I have recited aloud all the laws you have given us. I have rejoiced in your decrees as much as riches. I will study your commandments and reflect on your ways. I will delight in your principles and not forget your word.”
(Psalms 119:11-16)
For the love of Jesus.
Doris Holmberg Wolters
Fruit of the Spirit
If you want the fruit of the Holy Spirit to be evidenced in your life, if you want to bear fruit, you must first let your roots grow deep.
Do this by drawing up nourishment from, and continually growing in the Lord.
Then only can you blossom and produce fruit that will be desired. The fruit will then be plucked, tasted, devoured, digested and absorbed by new believers.
Those seeds grow and they in turn produce fruit, and the cycle will continue.
2 Timothy 2:12, Colossians 2:6&7, Galatians 5:22&23
Cleansing
Before we can be cleansed, we need to use the pre-spotting agent of confession and acknowledgement of sin in our lives.
For some spots (sins) it might take some scrubbing.
We may have to deal with the sin, make it right, and even ask forgiveness of someone we may have hurt. We may need to work to eradicate some desires that Satan, or self, has planted within us.
Then we come to Him, and claim this promise:
“But if we confess our sins to him, he can be depended on to forgive us and to cleanse us from every wrong. And it is perfectly proper for God to do this for us, because Christ died to wash away our sins.
(1 John 1:9)
Our Memory
In our youth, our memory is pliable like clay. What we commit to it is pressed-in for life.
In our latter years, our mind either becomes like stone, which is difficult to permanently etch anything in. Or it is like gel, you try to memorize, but it all runs together and is lost.
“I have hidden your word in my heart, that I might not sin against you. Blessed are you, O Lord; teach me your principles. I have recited aloud all the laws you have given us. I have rejoiced in your decrees as much as riches. I will study your commandments and reflect on your ways. I will delight in your principles and not forget your word.”
(Psalms 119:11-16)
For the love of Jesus.
Doris Holmberg Wolters
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