GROW UP - WEEK ONE - DAY TWO
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:
12 Don’t let anyone look down on you because you are young, but set an example for the believers in speech, in conduct, in love, in faith and in purity.
- 1 Timothy 4:12 NIV
REFLECTION:
Here is a sobering truth: we are not going to stumble into spiritual maturity in life. I think a lot of us feel as if spiritual maturity comes with time and experience, and these things definitely do help, but the fact of the matter is that spiritual maturity requires intentionality and introspection.
As Christian’s we must take the time to look at our spiritual life and ask ourselves how we need to grow up. We need to look inwards and ask how we are spiritually immature. We have more control than we might think when it chokes to these things. We control how we act and how we think. We control how we react to the hard things of life. We control how much we pray and read His word. This all means that we control our own spiritual maturity.
With intentionality and introspection, we can decide to be spiritually mature or to stay in our spiritual immaturity. No matter how young or how old, it is a choice. This is not to say that we still instantaneously become mature, but we decide the trajectory of our journey.
THOUGHTS TO PONDER:
Take some time today to consider your level of spiritual maturity. Just because you are young doesn’t mean you have to be immature. Just because you are old doesn’t mean you are necessarily spiritually mature. Where do you land on the spectrum? What can you do today to say being intentional and introspective about for spiritual maturity?
