22 September 2011

Are we constantly growing....or standing still occasionally?

We need to be much like a seed...similarly as the mentioned the mustard seed in (Luke 13:18-19).  Simply saying...how does a seed grow?  Does it grow in the ground a little bit then stops and then again or does it grow continually with no pause?  Some times the growth is small and sometimes in bigger steps...but always growing.

So if you are going to grow in the kingdom of God, we need to do it just like a seed that's been planted in the ground.  Let me explain.  A seed grows a little all the time, (24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year), a little ALL the time until it accomplishes what it was created to do.

Most of us do not operate that way spiritually.  We study and pray very hard for a few days or weeks, and then quit.  Then, when some trial or tribulation or disaster comes our way, we make a mad and sometimes desperate attempt to pray and stand on the Word, all the while realizing that, for some reason, we are just not as strong as we ought to be.

Let's face it...there is no such thing as an overnight success in the kingdom of God!  It is a process...real strength, real growth comes as we consistently and constantly keep the Word before our eyes, in our ears and in the midst of our heart.  Not just when we want to or when we feel like it, but constantly, like the seed, a little all the time.

We need to make up our mind to begin that daily process of constant growth today.  Determine to start putting the Word in our heart consistently.  Every day-- a verse here and a verse there.

Let's begin to act as though that Word is true every hour of the day regardless of what comes or how we feel physically or emotionally.  We must keep adding to our faith, mediating on it, confessing it, every day of the week.

Eventually...our faith will be bigger than we can ever image or dream it to be.  And then when faced with adversity...our strengthened faith and trust in Our Lord helps to persevere and endure and successfully deal with our trials.

Let's grow continually.