I just went to my wife's nephew's graduation last Saturday and will attend our local high school graduation this Saturday followed by the 8th grader's graduation on Monday. Definitely a busy time of the year. Unfortunately for many, graduation becomes an end, instead a means to an end. It's as if "I've arrived". Well, maybe there is an arrival, but only for that particular moment. For 8th graders, it's on to high school. For high schoolers, it's on to college or the work place. The bottom line is that graduation is merely passing on from one stage of experience to another. Yes, it's good to celebrate the moment, but if you only stay there, you've not really learned a thing.
The same holds true in our Christian walk. Many think that accepting Christ as Savior is the end all, be all. In reality, it's only the beginning of a maturing process as it pertains to a relationship with God. Should you stop growing in the faith, you might want to ask whether it is really faith at all. It would be like asking a child to stay at the age of 1 year for the rest of his life. After all, he's been born, he's passed from the sitting and crawling stage to that of standing and walking. But he's still only 1 year old. He still has a long way to go.
We as Christians still have a long way to go. We're to continue to move forward in our faith, to move from spiritual infancy to spiritual maturity. Let's not stop with accepting Jesus as our Savior. Let's graduate to making Him be our Lord as well.
3 comments:
Great post. Sounds like YOU should be writing for the Upper Room......
As a younger church goer, I find that growing in your christianity is alot like starting college. You know you're at college, the place one is supposed to go after high school, but you don't know where the classrooms are, where the union is at and so forth. I feel that being a young christian is somewhat the same. Church is where one should be Sunday morning but it is Monday thru Saturday that one must "find yourself" in your walk with God. It is not always easy, just as college is not easy. I just pray alot for guidence!!
Keep up the good work PR, you inspire me in our small community to make others accountable.
Got the card from you and yours for my b-day. Thanks for thinking of me!!!
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