Still growing

 Still Growing

 

Let your roots grow down into him and draw up nourishment from him, so you will grow in faith, strong and vigorous in the truth you were taught. Let your lives overflow with thanksgiving for all he has done.

COLOSSIANS 2.7

 

When your faith is tested, your endurance has a chance to grow.

JAMES 1.3

 

Teach us to make the most of our time, so that we may grow in wisdom.

PSALM 90.12

 

Imagine if a baby just stayed a baby — never growing up or getting bigger. Something would be terribly wrong with a baby who didn’t grow. And something would be wrong with a Christian who never grew either — a Christian who stayed a baby in faith. As we grow in years, we want to grow in how we talk to, listen to, and trust God.

How do we grow in faith? It starts with how we “eat” spiritually — talking about, thinking about, and memorising the Bible. First, we feed ourselves the “milk” — the basics about life in Christ, who God is, and what he has done for us. Then, just as babies go from drinking milk to eating solid food, we move on from the “milk” to the “meat” — the deeper truths and bigger picture of God. We can do this by “chewing on” and “swallowing” more challenging passages in the Bible and by going deeper in learning about God’s Word.

While our physical bodies stop growing at some point, we never have to stop growing spiritually. We will always have more to learn, new ways to trust God, deeper truths to understand.