GALATIANS 5:22-23: FRUITS OR FRUIT?

Have you ever heard about the fruits of the Spirits (means: buah-buah Roh). I am sure you have or even talked about it. But my question is, does the scripture really say 'the fruits of the Spirit'? If you take a look at the statement closely, you may find that it doesn't appear like that. You may read as 'the fruit of the Spirit' instead of 'the fruits of the Spirit'. Why fruit and not fruits?

"But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control. Against such there is no law" (Gal. 5:22-23)

My understanding is all the characters are in one form in terms of GOD's manner. Each character cannot be separated. The unity of them indicates the Truth about GOD. If we have proclaimed that we are in Jesus and the Spirit is in us, then all the above characters will automatically be inside us. We cannot say 'I am a peaceful person' while others say we are a bad person and cannot control ourselves. It seems also ridiculous if we claim ourselves as a kind person while others say we are a boastful man.

Well, it's clear to me now that it's beyond our capacity as a human being to let the Spirit work upon us comprehensively as long as we still live in flesh. When the Spirit cannot work properly then as the consequence, sin will grow. We cannot avoid sin to grow, can we? No wonder we need JESUS. He knows our weakness. All we can do as a human is to obey what He asked us to do as much and good as we can and let HIM do the rest of it for us.