Moving on to maturity

"Babyhood is a delightful thing; perpectual babyhood is deplorable"
-Leonard Ravenhill

I had 3 conversations with 3 diff youths yesterday and today. All of them have been in church all their lives and I could see their state of maturity. Many of them have "faith like a child". I do not doubt their genuine desire to want to worship God and their desire to know Him more. They are still in the infancy of their faith. It's is my prayer that they grow up fast as they drink the pure milk of the Word of God.

Like new born babies, their growth then can truly be accelerated. That's the power of the Holy Spirit. To transform lives and cause them to grow stronger and more into the image of Christ. The apostle Paul urge his readers to move on to maturity because that's the only prove of growth in Christ. It's part of the proccess to become "complete" in Christ. "...we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine." (Eph 4:14). Such are easily deceived and tricked by crafty preachers.

May we never be comfortable at where we are lest we become stagnant and feel condemned. The power of the Spirit is real and effective and "unless the Lord builds the house" we labour in vain. Let the Word be proven true through it's dealings in our lives.