“Brothers, I
could not address you as spiritual, but as worldly - as infants in Christ. I
gave you milk, not solid food, for you were not yet ready for solid food. In
fact, you are still not ready, for you are still worldly...”
How long have you been saved...Are you growing?
Paul had founded the Corinthian church approximately
three years earlier and he is a little put out with their lack of spiritual
growth. He is disappointed that they are still infants in Christ needing milk
and unable to break from their worldly chains.
What kind of letter would he
write to us? Many of us are decades into our walk with Christ and still on a
spiritual bottle. Still worldly and focused on temporal, instead of eternal
things.
Did we check the box of
salvation and miss that it was a beginning not a destination? Have we forgotten
that the very purpose of our “re-birth” is to grow in Christ?
If so, then it’s time to change
that. It is time to commit to growth. If
three years was too long for the Corinthians to remain worldly, then it is past
time for us to grow up as well.
Start this week consuming a
daily serving of God’s Word so you can grow into the warrior God intended. Dig into the meat of the Word and begin to
develop spiritual strength and break free from all the worldly things that drag
you down.
Be intentional. Nothing is more
important than becoming who God made you to be and doing what God made you to
do.
"Spiritual growth depends
on two things: first a willingness to live according to the Word of God;
second, a willingness to take whatever consequences emerge as a result."
- Sinclair B. Ferguson
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