Thanks for tuning in to today's Daily Drive with Lake Point Church, a daily dose of God's word for your

morning drive. When the word, not the world, becomes the majority of your week, your life will start to

change. For that reason, our prayer is that God will speak to you through today's devotional.

This Christmas, we want to invite

you and your family to join us for our candlelight services on December 22nd through 24th at any of our

six locations or for church online. For more information, visit lakepoint.combe.combe.

And now let's dive in to today's

devotional. Hey, I hope you're having a good day and wherever you are that you're living in the

awareness of God's goodness and presence with you today. My name is Mike, and we've been talking about

how the Holy Spirit of God grows amazing fruit in hearts that have good soil, soil that has been cultivated

but humility and fertilized with gratitude. When you and I are receptive and dependent, he does some

pretty cool transformation in us. For years now, I've been using that Fruit of the Spirit list

in Galatians chapter 5. It's kind of a replay monitor. Check how I might be growing or not growing in certain areas.

I begin to pray, you know, search me, old God, would you get your eyes on me? How's my love these days?

How's my kindness? How's my faithfulness? How's my patience? How's my goodness?

And this week we've been talking about the one on that list that God told me I needed to work on, and it kind of surprised me. In fact, they even argued the call.

But he was right.

And after further review, I needed to go to work on gentiless.

The past couple of days, we talked about how God wants to take us to the wood shop, not the woodshed, but the wood shop,

and playing our disposition and take a router to our rage.

And today I want to introduce you to the belt sander.

I'm learning that to produce this quality of gentleness in me,

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