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Yesterday I encouraged us to embrace moments of growth.  There are lots of opportunities, even daily, to learn and grow.


Growth is something that should be natural an even desired.  Yet what keeps us from growing can be many things.  It could be thinking too little of yourself.  It could be thinking too much of yourself.  It could be that you think you have already grown enough.


It is my understanding that God desires us to grow and learn all the way to the moment that we have no more life in us.  Desire to grow.  Desire to be more like Jesus.  


Ephesians 4:15-16  NLT  

Then we will no longer be immature like children. We won’t be tossed and blown about by every wind of new teaching. We will not be influenced when people try to trick us with lies so clever they sound like the truth.  Instead, we will speak the truth in love, growing in every way more and more like Christ, who is the head of his body, the church. 


Those verses are a change.  God says those words we might not want to hear, “Grow up”.


Have you ever been hurt when someone said something to you?  Have you ever been offended?  Some of those times the words may have cut, but they led to your growing.  And we need to grow.


Growing us makes us stronger.  Growing helps us stand when life tries to knock us down.  That is why we need to grow as God leads.


Spend time growing in the Lord.  Spend time with God, in the Bible, praying and simply in the presence of God.  That will lead you in to all kinds of growth.


And we all need to keep on growing!

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