Bullets for the Battle

The Bullet of Growth: Growing in Hope

Following Jesus Christ … I mean really following … is no easy thing! It demands a growing honesty with ourselves about our true motives and level of sacrifice. It calls for constant change. None of us like change, especially when it means the surrender of selfish habits and the acceptance of increased spiritual responsibility. All of us are at different stages of our growth in Christ. My philosophy (which is Biblical) is to condemn no one for where you are, but rather, to encourage you to become more for Christ and to do it as quickly as possible. It’s great to sense a new godly tension. We must be sure our growth is not a creation of the flesh but a proper response to the prompting of the Holy Spirit.

As Dr. Baxter would put it … “We must be intensely spiritual, perfectively natural, and thoroughly practical.” May our Lord give us Christians like that throughout the world.

Don’t be deceived by the deceptions and empty attractions of our world. Reject any spirit of cynicism or bitterness! Our little lives given to the Father’s big purposes will alone satisfy our hunger for what He crated within us!