It shows in your life

It would be a contradiction in terms for someone whose life depended on the Spirit to live in disregard of the Spirit’s norms: that would be to say, “the Spirit is everything to me, but I do not care what the Spirit requires.” Practice and behavior are not simply the consequence of this new “life”: they are its expression. The indicative of “life” is a statement not of status, divorceable from practice, but of existence, whose reality is necessarily evidenced in practice. That “life” is not humanly generated (it derives from the Spirit) but it is humanly expressed, and it can hardly be said to be real without such expression.—J. M. G. Barclay, Paul and the Gift, 429–30 (emphasis original)