Family Worship Center
Daily Devotionals
Grow
 
"I had to feed you with milk, not with solid food, because you weren't ready for anything stronger. And you still aren't ready, for you are still controlled by your sinful nature. You are jealous of one another and quarrel with each other. Doesn't that prove you are controlled by your sinful nature? Aren't you living like people of the world?" 1 Corinthians 3:2-3 (NLT)
 
The believers in Corinth weren't growing. Paul had given the basics of God's Word to them, but he could go no further, for they continued to allow their old sinful nature to rule over them. They had been set free from the power of sin and death, but they still allowed themselves to act like the world they had come out of. As long as the believers in Corinth continued to submit to their old nature their spiritual growth would be halted, and they would continue to be infants in Christ.
 
Just as we expect our physical children to grow and mature, so God desires to see His spiritual children do the same. When our children are young we can only trust them with certain things; we don't let them drive, we don't allow them to use knives, when we take them out to eat we only let them order from the children's menu. But, as they grow and mature we began to trust them with things that require more responsibility, like driving a car, or using a knife. It is much the same way with God. When His children are infants He can only trust them with so much, otherwise they may hurt themselves. But, as they grow and mature He is able to bless them in new ways, giving them things He had prepared for them long ago, but had to wait until they reached a place of maturity where they could handle those things.
 
Make a choice to grow spiritually! Take in God Word daily allowing the Holy Spirit to guide and empower you to live by it, and refuse to allow your old sinful nature to dominate you! As you grow in the Lord you will find Him opening new doors of blessings and responsibilities to you! You will inherit all the Lord has prepared for you as you grow and mature spiritually into a mature follower of Christ!
 
"When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things." 1 Corinthians 13:11 (NKJ)


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Santa Fe Family Worship Center
13601 FM 1764
Santa Fe, Texas 77517