GROW UP - WEEK ONE - DAY ONE
Hello and welcome to your Daily Devos, following our Grow Up series at 29:11!
Take some time today to read through the provided scriptures, meditate on the lessons we’ve learned this week, and journal your prayers. Have an amazing week, 29:11 Church!
THEME SCRIPTURE:
Dear brothers and sisters, when I was with you I couldn’t talk to you as I would to spiritual people. I had to talk as though you belonged to this world or as though you were infants in Christ. 2 I had to feed you with milk, not with solid food, because you weren’t ready for anything stronger. And you still aren’t ready, 3 for you are still controlled by your sinful nature. You are jealous of one another and quarrel with each other. Doesn’t that prove you are controlled by your sinful nature? Aren’t you living like people of the world? 4 When one of you says, “I am a follower of Paul,” and another says, “I follow Apollos,” aren’t you acting just like people of the world?
- 1 Corinthians 3: 1-4 NLT
TODAY’S PASSAGE:
So let us stop going over the basic teachings about Christ again and again. Let us go on instead and become mature in our understanding. Surely we don’t need to start again with the fundamental importance of repenting from evil deeds and placing our faith in God.
- Hebrews 6:1 NLT
REFLECTION:
There’s a concept in human psychology that I find fascinating: the Dunning-Kruger effect. This cognitive bias occurs when people with limited knowledge and competence in a particular subject overestimate their abilities. For example, a beginner learning the guitar might believe they’ve quickly mastered its complexities, even though their actual skill level doesn’t match their perceived expertise. Interestingly, as they continue to learn more about the guitar, they become better at accurately assessing their true abilities.
I believe this effect applies to our faith as well. When we are in the early stages of our faith journey, it’s easy to overestimate how deep our faith really is. However, the more we learn and genuinely invest in our spiritual growth, the better we can assess our faith’s true depth and recognize the areas in which we need to stretch and grow.
Here’s a an interesting problem to consider: I think that many Christians can get to the shallow knowledge and overconfidence stage in their faith walk, and then accidentally stay there. Why wouldn’t we? It feels good to think we’ve got it all figured out. But in reality, we’re often still in the infancy of our faith, resisting the growth we need. This leads to the critical question: where do you land in the Dunning-Kruger effect of your faith journey? And are you confident that you’re not overconfident in your answer?
THOUGHTS TO PONDER:
Take some time to be introspective and ponder your faith life If you are being completely honest with yourself, where do you fall on the scale: immature and overconfident, or mature and brutally honest. You probably are not on one side or the other, but where do you land on the graph?
