Stay Close and Grow!

“Like newborn babies, crave pure spiritual milk,

so that by it you may grow up in your salvation,”

I Peter 2:2

 

Growth is all about relationship.

Just as a child bonds with their natural parents a child of God can bond with his or her heavenly Father.

God has made the way.

Ideally, that begins when our natural parents raise us in the fear and admonition of the Lord.

Think about the progressive growth of a baby.

They are virtually 100% dependent on their parents as a newborn babe.

Slowly they begin to be able to hold their head up, sit up, crawl and walk.

They start out with mothers’ milk, then are introduced to other liquids, onto pureed or soft food and then finally ready for ‘real’ food.

An abandoned child would not grow.

Because they were abandoned, they would not have those to nurture and care for them at the time they needed it most.  

When we become children of God, through being born-again, we have care-givers provided by God, our parents (if we are still young), other believers and the pastors, teachers, evangelists, prophets and apostles God has given to the church.

Most importantly God puts His Holy Spirit into us to teach us and to guide us into all truth.

 Just as it is normal for an infant to crawl and then walk, so too is it normal for the believer to crawl and then walk in their relationship with God.

As I learn to cultivate that relationship with my Heavenly Father I continue to grow.

Abandon the relationship and that growth ceases.

Our Heavenly Father will never abandon us.

That is a promise He has made.

Stay close and grow!