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A Parent’s Desire
Those of us who are parents know what it is to have a desire for our kids to grow. We celebrate growth milestones as they progress from sitting up to rolling over, to crawling, to pulling up and then walking. Each new step brings us great joy… and multitudes of Instagram posts.
A parent’s concern for the growth of a child is not primarily size but health.
Growth is a sign of life and vitality, but a lack of growth is a sign of system failure. Stagnation. Eventually, death.
In the same way that we desire the physical growth of our children, God desires the spiritual growth of his children.
But what does it mean to grow spiritually?
The apostle Peter gives us some clues in 2 Peter 3:17–18,
17 You therefore, beloved… take care that you are not carried away with the error of lawless people and lose your own stability. 18 But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
In view of this statement, we may deduce that growing spiritually is, in large measure, the process of coming to a…
