The Ethic of the Holy Spirit

Put on, then, as God’s chosen ones,
holy and beloved, Compassion, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience, Bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has Forgiven you, so you also must forgive.
~ Colossians 3.12-13

This is the ethic of the Spirit of God, that builds the culture of the Kingdom. Putting off the works of the flesh (through repentance and faith), the ethic of a fallen, diseased world, and putting on Christ, yields the fruitful effects of the Kingdom’s in-break in our own hearts and into the world around us. It is in part, our participation in “Your Kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven…” The deteriorating condition of a maligned creation is being renewed, is being mitigated, first in my heart, and is a foretaste of that which will come in full at the second advent. So simple humility working in us is by no means a small thing, but evidence of Jesus’ resurrection and exalted glory!