Everyday life is God’s training ground to teach us to be like Christ. Some lessons take a lifetime to learn, and so the lesson may be repeated thousands of times in the everyday circumstances in life. The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long-suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness and temperance. The Spirit works in the garden of everyday life to produce the fruit for God’s eternal pleasure.
Thirty of the thirty-three and a half years of the Lord’s perfect life were spent in the quiet activities of everyday life, the adult ones as a carpenter in a small town. When He entered public life, what others said was simply, “Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary?” Yet about the same time God’s statement about Him is, “Thou art My beloved Son, in Thee I have found My delight” (Mark 1:1212And immediately the Spirit driveth him into the wilderness. (Mark 1:12) JND). He was a delight from all eternity, and He was a delight to the Father’s heart in the perfect way in which He lived His quiet, obscure daily life from birth to manhood. May our everyday lives be a delight to the heart of our Lord Jesus.