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Take all your fears, anxieties, feelings of insecurity, the 'not good enough,' and if you have any, the grandiose cover-ups of imaginary greatness in hate, and wrap them up tightly with strings of hope to box them up to send to the Lord.

Now, whether you believe in the Lord or not, focus on your fruit of the Spirit (love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness to the Lord, or higher-deeper goodness, gentleness, and self-control). These qualities are contained within every individual at birth.

For we are all children of God, our Lord. Our bodies are the temples of the Holy Spirit; therefore, within us is the fruit of the Spirit. No one is born without this fruit.

If we practice ruthlessness, we proceed to destroy the fruit of the Spirit and our humanity, to the point where, over time, we become extremely poor in spirit or dead in spirit.

Is there wisdom in aggression? No. Negative feelings of ruthlessness and hate are not signs of intelligence. Will destroying our fruit of the Spirit, our humanity, eliminate all weaknesses? Or address the true weaknesses of ignorance, fear, and insecurities?

No. On the contrary, destroying the fruit of the Spirit will create insatiable desires, leading to grandiose delusions of power and sin.

Only someone who feels inferior would abuse others to try to feel superior. If there is genuine self-confidence, there would be no need or desire to feel superior.

And if we pursue perfection, we place ourselves in a box of idealized delusion and facade, never changing, nurturing, or growing in the fruit of the Spirit, which transcends and reaches towards infinite excellence.

Because nothing is perfect, you will develop within yourself a sense of never being good enough. Is there perfection in love? No. Love is an emotion, not a confined intellectual construct.

Any reality or delusion not leading to heaven and salvation is nonsense, untrue, and most likely unholy.

Now, check the box of packaged fears, anxieties, feelings of insecurity, the 'not good enough,' and grandiose cover-ups of imaginary greatness in hate.

See if all the roots of brokenness are included in these packages. Lift the box to the Lord, and sincerely, humbly, and gratefully ask for help with spiritual healing and the restoration of the fruit of the Spirit.  

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