“So now, brethren, I commend you to God and to the
word of His grace, which is able to build you up and give you an inheritance
among all those who are sanctified”. Acts
20:32.
As Disciples of Christ
who are born into the Kingdom of God’s Son, if we must enjoy the full package
of following Christ, then we must of necessity seek to grow in our walk with
Jesus Christ on a daily basis. If we don’t grow, we will only be undoing
ourselves. Spiritual maturity is what will help us to keep standing when the
trials and temptations of life come our way.
God has made
provisions, through His word whereby we can grow in our walk with Christ. When
we allow the word of God to take root in us, then we can say that we are making
progress in our journey with God.
Mind you, this is
beyond having head knowledge about God or of the Bible. This has to do with
having knowledge about God which is directly transforming our lives to becoming
the image of Jesus Christ.
It is good now that
the Bible is very available and handy. Take advantage of it and pray to God to
help you have an encounter with the Spirit behind the Word. Then your
transformation will begin.
Also, thanks be to
God for Spirit-inspired materials in the forms of sermon, books and articles
both in hard and softcopies which are readily available to help you get the
knowledge about the personality of Christ. Take advantage of these materials so
as to transform your life.
While you work on
yourself to go beyond just being a hearer, reader or listener to becoming a
doer of the word of God, for then will you begin to see the transformation that
comes by the word in your life.
“But
whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being
not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in
his deed”. James 1:25.
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