Walking With Jesus (Growth)Sample

The process

Philippians 1:6

Becoming a Christian is more than just an instant conversion. Becoming a Christian is a daily process of becoming more and more like Christ. When a person believes in Jesus as his spiritual Lord and Savior, he becomes a spiritual baby. This spiritual baby needs to get spiritual food in the form of simple lessons from the Bible. He also needs to learn to live as a Christian.

He may fall in the course of his life. He could make mistakes after mistakes, but that won't stop him from getting up and moving on in life. In reality, many people stop growing. They remain spiritual babies for the rest of their lives. It is a sad thing, isn't it? Just like our parents expect growth from their children, our spiritual parent, the Heavenly Father, also expects spiritual growth from us. We may fall, but we can get up and continue growing until we become adults in the Lord. God needs mature people to serve His work.

God has begun the good things in us through salvation. Salvation is free. We don't have to do anything to receive it because Christ did it by dying on the cross. However, salvation itself is a process that will continue until the day of the Lord Jesus Christ. This process continues to happen throughout our lives. If we believe that He makes things beautiful in its time, we must be willing and submissive in God's process. God processes us like a branch that He cleans to bear many fruits or like clay that a potter forms with his hands. When they are ready, the branches will bear fruit and the vessels will be ready to be used as the vessels of glory.

Therefore, let us have the passion to grow. Do not be satisfied with a mediocre spiritual life. The pressures of life and various struggles require strong spiritual growth to balance it – and that is our way of life that leads to eternity.

Reflection:

1. Are you a spiritual baby? For how long? Do you experience any growth?

2. How are you struggling with the process that God is working on in your life? What process do you consider as God's program in life to mature you? Did the process help you?

Practice: Understand everything as God's process to mature you.