“Healthy things grow, and growing things change, and changing things change things.“
~ Christine Caine, author, Twitter, July 25, 2019
6 So then, just as you received Christ Jesus as Lord, continue to live your lives in him, 7 rooted and built up in him, strengthened in the faith as you were taught, and overflowing with thankfulness.
Colossians 2:6-7
GOD LOVES GROWING THINGS!
Who or what am I becoming? Where am I going? The goal of my life is to live for the Glory of God alone, not for personal success. I cultivate the soil, faithfully plant, and faithfully water. It is God who causes the growth.
- Healthy things grow.
- Growth leads to change.
- Change leads to challenge.
- Challenge leads to trusting God.
- Trusting God leads to obedience.
- Obedience leads to healthy faith.
- Health lets us grow.
This is the list I heard this morning in a sermon by Tom Vander Well (tomvanderwell.com), and I want to explore it with you in the next couple of weeks.
Blessed is the one …
Psalm 1 :2-3
whose delight is in the law of the Lord,
and who meditates on his law day and night.
That person is like a tree planted by streams of water,
which yields its fruit in season
and whose leaf does not wither—
