Me: How are you feeling today?
Prodigal: I feel like one wheel is off and the axle is draggin’.
Me: Maybe I can help.
This is from the book You Can Change by Tim Chester
Christians need never plateau. Many Christians grew quickly when they were first converted. They were full of enthusiasm and change. Then, after a while, they settled down into a routine. All the public, embarrassing sins have been swept away, but now there’s little real growth. If change could be represented as a line on a graph, their line has gone flat. Their behavior has changed, but their hearts go unchallenged. It needn’t be this way. Change is always possible.
Other Christians worry that they’re not growing when they actually are. Often growth in grace means a growing awareness of our sin. We see the dirt in our hearts all the more as we move toward the light of God. As with a computer game in which you progress up through various levels, so it is with sanctification. Level 1 sins are the obvious, clear sins that others see in us. By level 10 we’re becoming aware of subtle and deceitful heart desires.
Today is a day of growth and that is not a bad thing. It may be struggle but Christ is with you in your struggle. We are never with out encouragement and love during our struggles and neither are you.
Matthew 6:25
Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing?
Jennifer Van Allen
www.theprodigalpig.com
www.faithincounseling.org
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