You know, growth is an interesting phenomenon.
You can't see the inch by inch growth of a child yet when you notice that he's gotten taller since the last time you saw him you say, "Oh wow! You've grown so tall!"
The boy probably couldn't feel his head moving up inch by inch everyday but one day he woke up and as if it happened overnight, he's taller and bigger.
Does anyone even know when this growth is taking place? That particular second/minute when the child gained an extra inch. Yet growth keeps happening. And the evidence is glaring, you can't deny that he grew taller.
That's how our life journey is. The ideal is that we go from one stage to a higher stage. We may not all notice the little steps or inches that we grow, but at some point, people go, "oh wow! You've reached this milestone!" We all know quite well that progress doesn't happen overnight. There are nutrients that we've been feeding on that have been contributing to our daily growth whether we feel it or not. However someday we get there. We get to that measurable level of growth. We can look back and have an Ebenezer moment, "thus far has the Lord brought me." And no matter what we've experienced in the past, nobody can deny our testimony.
You may not feel fully grown into who you know you should be. Don't panic. It's a process. God is pruning you, and putting all that you need for growth in you so that you may come to the full stature of Christ.
"12His intention was the perfecting and the full equipping of the saints (His consecrated people), [that they should do] the work of ministering toward building up Christ's body (the church),
13[That it might develop] until we all attain oneness in the faith and in the comprehension of the [[a]full and accurate] knowledge of the Son of God, that [we might arrive] at really mature manhood (the completeness of personality which is nothing less than the standard height of Christ's own perfection), the measure of the stature of the fullness of the Christ and the completeness found in Him.
14So then, we may no longer be children, tossed [like ships] to and fro between chance gusts of teaching and wavering with every changing wind of doctrine, [the prey of] the cunning and cleverness of [b]unscrupulous men, [gamblers engaged] in every shifting form of trickery in inventing errors to mislead. " Ephesians 4:12-14.
You can't see the inch by inch growth of a child yet when you notice that he's gotten taller since the last time you saw him you say, "Oh wow! You've grown so tall!"
The boy probably couldn't feel his head moving up inch by inch everyday but one day he woke up and as if it happened overnight, he's taller and bigger.
Does anyone even know when this growth is taking place? That particular second/minute when the child gained an extra inch. Yet growth keeps happening. And the evidence is glaring, you can't deny that he grew taller.
That's how our life journey is. The ideal is that we go from one stage to a higher stage. We may not all notice the little steps or inches that we grow, but at some point, people go, "oh wow! You've reached this milestone!" We all know quite well that progress doesn't happen overnight. There are nutrients that we've been feeding on that have been contributing to our daily growth whether we feel it or not. However someday we get there. We get to that measurable level of growth. We can look back and have an Ebenezer moment, "thus far has the Lord brought me." And no matter what we've experienced in the past, nobody can deny our testimony.
You may not feel fully grown into who you know you should be. Don't panic. It's a process. God is pruning you, and putting all that you need for growth in you so that you may come to the full stature of Christ.
"12His intention was the perfecting and the full equipping of the saints (His consecrated people), [that they should do] the work of ministering toward building up Christ's body (the church),
13[That it might develop] until we all attain oneness in the faith and in the comprehension of the [[a]full and accurate] knowledge of the Son of God, that [we might arrive] at really mature manhood (the completeness of personality which is nothing less than the standard height of Christ's own perfection), the measure of the stature of the fullness of the Christ and the completeness found in Him.
14So then, we may no longer be children, tossed [like ships] to and fro between chance gusts of teaching and wavering with every changing wind of doctrine, [the prey of] the cunning and cleverness of [b]unscrupulous men, [gamblers engaged] in every shifting form of trickery in inventing errors to mislead. " Ephesians 4:12-14.
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ReplyDeleteNice write up!!!
ReplyDeleteThanks beloved!
ReplyDeleteGreat post - we grow daily! Infact, we grow every second...bt its in small steps. Jst like when the bible said "line upon line, precept upon precept" - and we grow into that which God has planned for us. Nice. Encouraging piece. and the image of the plant too points us toward the idea of the write up.
ReplyDeleteDeat Homie, will it be OK if I turned in a piece to be posted?
Sure CJ! Just email it to me! :)
ReplyDeleteGrow in grace;
ReplyDeleteGrow by the true knowledge of God;
Grow up to him in all things, who is the head, the Christ.
Thanks for that comment David! A preacher once said, (and I'm paraphrasing) the body of Christ should be in equal proportion to her head.
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