But the Fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, GOODNESS, faith ……of such there is no law.
GOODNESS is the next portion of the fruit of the Spirit that we will look at in today’s post. To fully understand what we are asking for when we pray for our children to exhibit goodness as a part of their everyday lives, let us look more closely on what Goodness means.
The Strong’s concordance Greek translation of GOODNESS is agathosune {ag-ath-o-soo’-nay} which means virtue or beneficence. We can further define the word virtue as a benefit, a quality, an asset, or a plus. The word beneficence on the other hand (from an ethical point of view) usually means “to do no harm”.
Our Standard for what Goodness is should be patterned after Jesus- that is the type of goodness that we should strive to exhibit. The Bible tells us that Jesus went around doing good- He did no Harm
Jesus went around doing good. We also can, and should go around doing God. He did not choose to do good to those who could reciprocate; neither did he do so just for those who followed Him or Loved Him. He did good whenever there was a need. A key point to notice is that Jesus was anointed with the Holy Ghost and with power as well as the fact that God was with Him.
The act of goodness should originate from the heart; it is not an act to draw attention to us. Again this may be difficult to achieve, however it’s attainable. This same power that Jesus Christ had while He was on earth is the same power that He left with us when He returned to heaven. He also left the Holy Spirit with us and we too can get this anointing upon us.