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The French moralist Joseph Joubert said "To teach is to learn twice". I had this exact experience lately when teaching my son's Sunday School class at church. The lesson was on the book of Galatians and touched on the passage from Galatians 5:22-23 regarding spiritual fruit: " But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law." While reading those verses with the kids, I had a moment of conviction. How have I truly been doing lately with producing the fruit of the spirit? Immediately some moments came to mind when instead of producing this fruit, I had instead given growth to weeds of discord, jealousy, selfish ambition and envy. Realizing this I had a moment of berating myself for not "doing better" and producing more fruit, but thankfully due to God's grace the lesson didn't stop there. After introducing the verse, ...
