We Grow Up!

We Grow up!

We are products of growth. We grew here. At the beginning we were seeds loaded with potentials. We may be small but all we could be was packaged in that unit of life travelling from generation gone by into the future. When we got planted within favorable conditions, we broke dormancy and died. In resurrection, we came out new. We came blank, armed with the growth tools to become all we were coded to be. We engaged the spirit of growth and changes commenced, both permanent and temporary. Physically we grow, mentally we grow and spiritually too.
When we got born again, with God's own seed within, growth must now be for transformation. Growth in grace and in knowledge as released and received from God.
I wish to speak of knowledge as concerning growth. Becoming like God through Christ is the goal of growth. Knowing God in truth and in sincerity is important in growth. Knowing God on different platforms forms the standard for our growth. We can always compare and contrast to know how we are faring and adjust through our control on the growth factors.
We 'know' God in our recreated human spirit and the nature of God within. The codes in the DNA we share with God come with all the information of God that our conformity with God requires. The laws of God are written on the tablet of our hearts which is the very image of God. So within us we know Him but unconsciously. [My Offline Bible] Jeremiah 31
33 But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the LORD, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people.
We know God through the Holy Ghost who has been given us. He is the embodiment of God's knowledge. He is the living library of God. [My Offline Bible] 1 Corinthians 2
11 For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God. 12 Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God.
So we have the knowledge of God through the Holy Spirit, given to us, who lives and works with us.
We know God through His word. The abundance of God's heart were poured out as holy men spake as they were moved by God's Spirit. [My Offline Bible] 2 Peter 1
20 Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation. 21 For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost.
God breathed, and His being became words written in scripture through which we know Him. The Bible is God's word in print.
We know God in Jesus. As the word became flesh and dwelled amongst us we behold His glory so that we can know God. [My Offline Bible] John 1
14 And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth. Jesus is our example in whose footsteps we must follow. [My Offline Bible] 1 Peter 2
21 For even hereunto were ye called: because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that ye should follow his steps:
We know God also as we practice the word of God. Our experiences and exercises in God's word as we fellowship and walk with God daily bring to us a deep revelation of who God is, as we experience His attributes first hand by reason of practice. [My Offline Bible] Hebrews 5
14 But strong meat belongeth to them that are of full age, even those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil.
Of course we also know God as we fellowship with other believers and their gifts in teaching, preaching and prophesying and in the manifestations of the Holy Spirit through people.

While knowing God is a major factor in growth because it provides us with a template and standard to work with, it will also require knowing oneself to make a difference. Every believer who wants to become like Christ must always do sincere self-assessments. We must never assume where we are in God otherwise it's easy to think we are standing even when we are already fallen, dead and buried! This is the first step in the practicality of spiritual growth.
Where am I? Should be a constant question with a growing Christian. A question that must be answered at all times with sincerity. The truth is that, who we should be is a revelation in our spirit. No human knows who we should be like our spirit, who we should be was also coded into our spirit 1Corinthians 2:11. Who we are aside from who we should be which is in our spirit, is a conditioned situation with most of us. It is like a smell we are used to, it's there, others can smell it but we can't.
The process of tests, trials and our responses becomes the way of revelations of who we are. God knows us without testing us. He is omniscient and residentially so, except if He deliberately would be ignorant of a thing. He won't need a test or trial to know who we are. [My Offline Bible] Psalms 139
1 O LORD, thou hast searched me, and known me. 2 Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising, thou understandest my thought afar off. 4 For there is not a word in my tongue, but, lo, O LORD, thou knowest it altogether. 6 Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high, I cannot attain unto it.
God knows us but that knowledge is too high for us. So we are tested and tried for us to know ourselves. Peter wouldn't know his capacity to deny Jesus but Jesus knew and he had to go through that trial to know. We go through that daily.
Here is growth! When we compare the knowledge of our state as revealed in the results of our trials and tests with what we know of God we repent and change and we grow.
It sounds so simple but we often limit our growth with our attitudes to knowing God. We can't know Him fully until we see Him but we must do all to know Him on a daily basis as He reveals Himself to us through the avenues we have discussed. We must consistently seek to know who we are per time. Assumption of a position we are yet to attain deprives us of ever getting there. If we have nothing to repent of then we remain at our position of self acclaimed perfection and we get stuck, not being able to become more like God.
If we desire to become more and more like God, we must be ready to keep renewing our minds daily as we discover more and more of the depth in God. We must be ready to throw off the things we have learnt that are alien to God's knowledge. We must be ready and willing to change at the slightest discovery of our being at variance with God. In so doing we create space for the manifestation of the coded traits within us and daily we conform to God's image and show forth His glory. Good morning!
[My Offline Bible] 2 Peter 3
18 But grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To him be glory both now and for ever. Amen.