One list is a set of good fruits that come when the good spirit is operative in our lives, and the other is a list of bad fruits that show up when we’re giving into the evil spirit.Īs we flow in one direction or the other, we’re either moving toward God or away from God, which Ignatius called consolation and desolation. We tend to focus on his list of nine examples of fruits that come from God’s Spirit-things like love, joy, peace, and kindness, but he also names 15 fruits that can appear when we live “opposed to the Spirit”-things like anger, jealously, strife, and division. Paul wrote about the fruits of the Spirit in his letter to the Galatians. Have our desires and choices been keeping us in the flow that journeys toward God, or have they been coaxing us back toward our egos? Has the good spirit or the evil spirit been operative? While desire may be the fuel that propels our lives forward from choice to choice, the fruit is the visible evidence of our trajectory. ![]() Fruits appear after we make choices, follow certain thought paths, and cultivate certain relationships. In the spiritual life a fruit is what we see emerge as human beings respond to God in daily life. Jesus said that we will know what is good by its fruit.
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