026 | Doing Good... Because It Doesn't Depend On Us (A Fruitful Summer)

The Ruth Chou Simons Podcast

Ruth Chou Simons

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Ruth Simons, The Gracelaced Podcast, Ruth, Ruth Chou Simons, Podcast, Gracelaced, Grace Laced

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🗓️ 8 July 2025

⏱️ 13 minutes

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The fruit of the Spirit is… GOODNESS. In this episode, join Ruth as she meditates on the truth that in Christ, we’re made for good works. All summer long, join us in meditating on what it means to abide and consider the fruit of the Spirit in our lives. These short episodes, full of Scripture, are designed to be an opportunity to pause and realign your heart with truth Scripture referenced: Galatians 5:22-23 Ephesians 2:10 Galatians 6:10 1 Timothy 6:17-19 Romans 12:21 Titus 2:11-14 Jeremiah 2...

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0:03.5	Hey friends, welcome back to our summer series at the R Joe Simon's podcast. This summer, we are meditating on the fruit of the spirit. I figured if we're going to have summer days where sometimes it's super fun and we have wonderful plans and sometimes we don't and we're getting a little exhausted at the lack of routine.
0:38.9	My prayer is that this series, through the podcast, would just help us reset, week by week,
0:45.4	focusing on the very characteristics and attributes that we would like to have. We would like
0:52.6	to have the fruit of spirit, but we can't produce that fruit on our own.
0:56.6	So the goal of this summer series is for us to listen to the scriptures that remind us
1:02.3	how this fruit is formed in our lives by the spirit to the glory of God.
1:08.8	So if you haven't joined us from the beginning, it's not too late.
1:12.5	Listen to today's podcast, go back to the beginning, start at the very start of the summer
1:18.9	series. But the summer series is based on Galatians chapter 5, verse 22, and I'll read it for us
1:26.8	again. That way you'll know what you've missed so far
1:29.9	but the fruit of the spirit is love joy peace patience kindness goodness faithfulness
1:40.1	gentleness self-control against things, there is no law. Today, this week, we're talking about
1:49.9	goodness. I don't know that this is one of the fruit of the spirit. I don't think it's one of the
1:57.2	aspects of the fruit that I think about a lot. If I'm honest, I tend to think,
2:04.5	I'm good, right? I mean, pun intended, I guess, I'm good. I think I'm doing okay. Like,
2:11.2	goodness is not like self-control. I mean, self-control, I'm readily like, Spirit, please produce that fruit in my
2:19.9	life. But in goodness, I think I underestimate how much the Lord needs to work that out in my life,
2:29.3	that it's not goodness out of my own strength, out of my own morality, or even out of my own standards.
2:39.5	That goodness is to reflect the goodness of God.
2:42.9	And so today we're going to listen to scriptures that will help us just settle in and
2:49.2	realign our thoughts and our hearts with goodness, the goodness of God.
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