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by Bob and Debby Gass
Spiritual Growth (3)
November 28, 2017
‘The Word of God, which effectively works in you who believe.’ 1 Thessalonians 2:13 NKJV
Spiritually speaking, you may not be as far along as you’d like to be, but thank God you’re still on the road. At one time you were a stranger to God’s grace, but now you belong to ‘the household of God.’ (Ephesians 2:19 NKJV) Paul writes, ‘You received the Word…which…effectively works in you who believe.’ As long as you keep reading and believing God’s Word, it will keep working in you. Plus, you mature a lot faster when you learn to relax and start living by what God’s Word says about you, not how you feel. How you see yourself affects your spiritual progress profoundly. Until your self-concept lines up with what God says about you in Scripture, you’ll keep seeing yourself as unqualified and unworthy—and that will hinder your spiritual growth.
When God told Jeremiah He’d called him as a prophet to the nations, Jeremiah informed God he was too young, wasn’t a good speaker, and didn’t have enough experience. How did God respond? ‘Before I formed you…I knew [and] approved of you.’ (Jeremiah 1:5 AMPC) So stop worrying about being rejected when you don’t perform perfectly. The world operates like that, but not God. Plus, if you were as perfect as you’d like to be, you wouldn’t need His grace. Like Jacob’s limp, sometimes God leaves things in us to remind us how much we need Him each day. So enjoy where you are right now and stop comparing yourself with other people. Don’t worry if they are farther along than you. They went through exactly the same places to get to where they are today.
Soulfood: Gen 17–19, John 12:1–11, Ps 118:19–29, Prov 31:14–17
The Word for Today is authored by Bob and Debby Gass and published under licence from UCB International Copyright © 2017
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