How To Grow In Maturity!
"I know your works, love, service, faith, and
your patience; and as for your works,
the
last are more than the first."
Revelation 2: 19
The natural order in all creation is growth:
Seeds become plants, infants become adults,
calves become cows, acorns become oaks,
and minnows become fish.
When something doesn’t grow, it's cause for concern;
something abnormal is happening. Growth is also the
expected progression in the spiritual life: Babes
in
Christ grow into mature followers of Christ.
When Apostle Paul wrote his first letter to the church at Corinth,
he addressed their lack of spiritual growth. Instead of acting like
mature spiritual adults, they were
acting like carnal infants. He
could not address them as mature adults because they had not
grown in their faith.
Such was not the case with the church in the city of Thyatira.
When Christ addressed this church, He commended them for
their spiritual growth. They were displaying greater spiritual
works in the present than they had in the past—a sure sign
of increasing maturity
(Revelation 2:19).
Take a moment to assess your spiritual growth. Is it
increasing? Declining? Has it
plateaued? Ask God to
show you areas in which you can focus your growth
in the future.
"Faith, like a muscle,
grows by stretching."
A. W. Tozer
