The fruit of the Spirit is love
Joy is love’s consciousness
Peace is love’s confidence
Long–temperedness is love’s habit
Kindness is love’s activity
Goodness is love’s quality
Faithfulness is love’s quantity
Meekness is love’s tone
Temperance is love’s victory
The fruit of the Spirit is love.
The words were originally part of a sermon by G Campbell Morgan, preached at Westminster Chapel in the 1930's. Campbell Morgan was one of the most attractive classic evangelical biblical expositors. His sermons on 1 Corinthians 13 are spiritual reading that is both soul searching and psychologically astute. Not often is such literacy, rhetoric and spirituality fused into biblical reflection and made accessible through a demonstrably holy personality.
His commentary on Hosea is still one of the few that explores the full range of emotions in God that makes Hosea 11 amongst the most theologically subversive chapters for those who want a God predictably sovereign or indulgently loving – Holy Love is agony, but agony that persists in mercy.
The photo was taken on a walk beside a burn – (from Scots Gaelic for a watercourse that feeds larger rivers).
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