Taking our first steps is full of frustrations, bumps, and bruises, but those first steps are essential to learn to walk and grow. So it is with following Jesus. We are commanded to “walk in the Spirit.” Those steps can often be clumsy and uncoordinated, but one step after another we can eventually find ourselves “keeping in step with the Spirit.” That keeping in step, a close following of the Spirit’s leading, is the heart of being a Christian, and fruit it bears is what we call “the fruit of the Spirit.”