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The Fruit of the Spirit: Gentleness is a fruit of the Spirit

You have probably heard Jesus’ famous words from the Sermon on the Mount to “turn the other cheek” (Matthew 5:39). That’s terribly hard, isn’t it? It certainly was hard for civil rights workers in the 1950s and 1960s. Dr. Martin Luther King’s marchers down South found it really hard to be gentle when they were surrounded by whips, fire hoses, hatred, and violence. But civil rights came to black Americans not by guns and violence, but by love.

Here in America it seems as though everybody admires people who are aggressive and abrasive. But you--let the Spirit of the Lord bring forth his holy fruit in you and lead you to gentle words and gentle actions today. “The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control” (Galatians 5:22,23).The Fruit of the Spirit: Gentleness is a fruit of the Spirit

You have probably heard Jesus’ famous words from the Sermon on the Mount to “turn the other cheek” (Matthew 5:39). That’s terribly hard, isn’t it? It certainly was hard for civil rights workers in the 1950s and 1960s. Dr. Martin Luther King’s marchers down South found it really hard to be gentle when they were surrounded by whips, fire hoses, hatred, and violence. But civil rights came to black Americans not by guns and violence, but by love.

Here in America it seems as though everybody admires people who are aggressive and abrasive. But you--let the Spirit of the Lord bring forth his holy fruit in you and lead you to gentle words and gentle actions today. “The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control” (Galatians 5:22,23).