By the Spirit

Unlocked: Daily Devotions for Teens · Dec 4, 2022 · 1m

I sat down for the umpteenth Sunday service. Same row. Same struggle. Same insecurity. Never perfect enough or perhaps just never enough. I was exhausted by the hamster wheel of performance and anticipated leaving church just like I’d come in. Until So I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh. “Did I hear that right?” I quickly turned my Bible’s pages to Galatians 5:16. “Aha!” I had read this verse beginning to end many times. But all this time, the way I lived it out was backward. All. This. Time. I had been living as though Paul’s letter to the Galatian…