Road Trip!

“being confident of this, that he who began a good work in you will

carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus.”

Philippians 1:6

 

 

Pick a date on the calendar.

Well, maybe not just any date, pick a date that holds special meaning for you.

Maybe it’s your birthday or the birthday of your child.

Maybe the date you pick is your wedding date.

Perhaps you selected the date you surrendered your life to Christ.

Now, let me ask you a question.

What do all these dates have in common?

What they have in common is that they are singular dates on a calendar.

Certainly it is a date that holds special meaning to you but still it’s just a single 24-hr period.

That date represents an event in your life and not a process.

It represents a single point in time and not an extended journey over time.

One of the principles of spiritual maturity we must commit to is this:

We must commit to the process of spiritual maturity and not simply to the event of salvation.

Salvation is a single point in time while maturity ‘happens’ over the long journey of life while remaining in relationship with the Lord.

We would all prefer an ‘instant’ salvation and an ‘instant’ maturity too.

It doesn’t work that way.

The process of maturing takes time.

Sometimes it may move at a pretty good clip while at other times it seems agonizingly slow.

God has purposed it to be a journey.

Don’t grumble along the way.

Enjoy the road trip to maturity!