Emy Moore Brookins

It's to have a life that magnifies the fruits of the spirit.

And it simultaneously also doesn't mean to over-spiritualize things.

I saw this verse in Galatians 5, 16 that says, so I say, walk by the spirit and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh.

That last part of the text, you will not gratify the desires of the flesh, has a temptation for us to over-spiritualize places we don't need to over-spiritualize.

Does this make sense?

This doesn't mean to deny your flesh every time you're hungry or to not drink water if you're thirsty or to not go to sleep because you're tired, right?

Walking in the spirit doesn't mean...

fully rejecting like your human nature.

Does that make sense?

Because for an example, we got to eat each and every single day.

I can't fast my whole life.

I would be dead.

That's not going to work.

So walking the way of spirit is walking in his conviction.

It's not walking in a place of hyper dependence of works.

And I'm just emphasizing this because usually people who lack a lot of fatherhood,

fatherliness in their lives lack a lot of grace and i relate to that a lot and sometimes it compensates into a very workspace faith and that could bleed into over spiritualization to where we reject things that are you know a part of the world but simultaneously they're not inherently bad for us like for an example like i don't i don't know if there's going to be a roller coaster in heaven but there's a roller coaster here on earth i don't think it's a sin to go on one

You know, just like not giving yourself the space to over-spiritualize places that don't need to be over-spiritualized because you're trying to perform so hard to be a good daughter or son.

Does that make sense?

What's that verse?