How Does Spiritual Growth Happen?

Spiritual Growth is not automatic.  It requires a whole life investment of yourself.  However this investment is not the kind of investment that compartmentalized like work, where it can be to the detriment of the other parts of your life; rather this investment is like putting on a new pair of glasses.  Once on, these new lens cause you to see the entirety of life with a new clarity and new purpose.

I hope the following reflection helps you see a little more clearly how the simple mundane things of life matter immensely in your life with Christ.  In Christ, Jeff  

 

C.S. Lewis highlights an important aspect of spiritual growth when he says  ". . . . the real problem of the Christian life comes where people do not usually look for it.  It comes the very moment you wake up each morning.  All your wishes and hopes for the day rush at you like wild animals.  And the first job each morning consists simply in shoving them all back; in listening to that other voice, taking that other point of view, letting that other, larger, stronger life come flowing in.  And so on, all day.                 This process takes time to produce change in us but over time it has a profound effect.  As Lewis goes on to say, "We can only do it for moments at first.  But from those moments a new sort of life will be spreading through our system because we are now letting him work at the right part of us.  It is the difference between paint, which is merely laid on the surface and a dye or stain which soaks right through.

“. . . .grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.”
II Peter 3:18 (NIV)