Day 51: New and Old (pg 88)

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The Christian life is one of growth into a state of maturity, and that’s a lot harder than growing physically to maturity. You can’t stop physical growth, but you can stop mental, emotional and spiritual growth. It’s not uncommon to see a 20 year old acting like a twelve year old. It looks odd when a senior citizen behaves like a teenager. And I often fail to hold myself accountable to acting my spiritual age too. Sometimes I am the twenty year old Christian acting like a two year old Christian.

Jesus is quick to point out our attacks on new believers–the way we are quick to point out their faults and failings in faith matters. But the opposite is also true: the longer we have been a follower of Jesus, the more maturity and faith we ought to show. Unfortunately that is rarely true. Most long time believers have acquired a sense of dignity and poise in life, but rarely to they hold themselves to a life of dynamic faith and outreach. They’ve got the morality down, but not the mission of Jesus…myself often included.

God help me to act my age!

Let these disciplined times with you break me out of a life aimed at stability so that I life a dynamic, mission-filled life of faith each day.

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