A patrol officer stopped a motorist for a traffic violation. The driver, an influential businessman, tried to talk the officer out of writing him a ticket. When he saw that the policeman was not going to let him off the hook, the man got angry, shouting at the top of his lungs, “I’ll have your job for this!”

The unruffled policeman kept on writing the ticket as he replied, “Sir, you wouldn’t want my job. The hours are long, the pay is low, and you meet some of the nastiest people.”

There certainly are a lot of nasty people in the world. Some of them even claim to follow Jesus Christ. However, the Bible says that “…the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control…” (Galatians 5:22-23). Those words certainly don’t describe the driver in the story above! Do they describe you?