How can we cultivate the desire to live by the Spirit so that our cravings for what other people want can fade and diminish?

There’s a discipline involved. It might be that we determine to spend less time with those things which feed our desires to have what others desire - in other words to fast-forward through Claudia Winkeman’s shampoo adverts, or to stop reading the new car reviews in the weekend supplements - and to use that time instead to reflect on people we admire for being good examples of living out those fruits of the Spirit Paul names: people who exude love, joy and peace; people who display patience, kindness and generosity; faithful, gentle, self-controlled folks. Using them as our models, we’re increasingly likely to share their desires to live in the Way of God.

A talk for The Second Sunday after Trinity , 26 June 2022.

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