What keeps us from experiencing the full fruits of the spirit?

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The spiritual depths expressed here are amazing, each response is a step to growing in the Lord.

Tkyles1009 said "I think until we learn to include Christ in all our affairs we can't operate at full efficiency."

Through the Holy Spirit and filling our minds with the words of the Lord, we have the fullness of the fruits in abundance. But we also have within ourselves the fruits of the flesh, it is up to us to choose.

I liked that someone said to "act as if". We need to step our and let the fruits act through us. There seems to be a connection between our actions and our spirit. We can't act on anger and act on love, joy, and peace at the same time.