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2009/01/08
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Does Spiritual Growth Just Happen?
by Rick Warren
You have been believers so long now that you ought to be teaching others.
Instead, you need someone to teach you again the basic things about God's
word. You are like babies who need milk and cannot eat solid food. Hebrews
5:12 (NLT)
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Millions of Christians have grown older without ever growing up; they act as
though spiritual growth is automatic. They may have a plan to save for
retirement. They may have a plan for sending their kids to college. But they
don't have a strategy for enriching their souls. They leave the single most
important facet of human existence to chance!
But a soul doesn't automatically grow to maturity any more than a baby
automatically grows to physical maturity. You need to have a plan for
feeding, exercise, education – and especially potty training – if a child is
going to grow up healthy, strong, and mature.
A baby left on its own withers and dies. The same thing is true of your
soul. Our world is full of people who have grown older but are still babies
when it comes to spiritual maturity.
Spiritual growth is not automatic even for people who have opened their
hearts to Christ. The writer of Hebrews sadly noted, "You have been
believers so long now that you ought to be teaching others. Instead, you
need someone to teach you again the basic things about God's word."
"You are like babies who need milk and cannot eat solid food. For someone
who lives on milk is still an infant and doesn't know how to do what is
right. Solid food is for those who are mature, who through training have the
skill to recognize the difference between right and wrong" (Hebrews 5:12-14
NLT).
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'Unless you change what you do, you will always have what you've got.'
- Jim Rohn
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