We want to live loving, joyful, anxiety-free lives. Yet how can we live in grace when we are so busy battling our old patterns of behavior? Jerry Bridges works through the aspects of the fruit of the Spirit set out in Galatians 5:22-23 - love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control - and shows that these qualities of character grow from devotion to God rather than from resolutions about ourselves.

Bridges described this as the book he had wanted to write, gathering what he had learned in the years since The Pursuit of Holiness. The treatment is practical without becoming a program: each quality is defined from Scripture, traced to the work of the Spirit, and then applied to the ordinary relationships where it is actually tested. Published by NavPress, 224 pages, and suited to personal reading or a group working through a chapter at a time.