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Wednesday, February 14, 2018

Grow Up



Luke 2:52And Jesus grew in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and man.

Often times we look at one scripture and we try to apply it to our lives without knowing context or its actual meaning.

In Luke, this simple scripture says much that we can apply to our life without knowing context or actual meaning because it says so much in so few words.

“Jesus grew in wisdom and stature”.

Many of us hit snags in our growth and do not continue on and many of us stay in our place of growth for a very long time.

Many of us attend church on a Sunday, but do not convert the teachings of Jesus to our everyday life.

Following are some simple beliefs about our faith that some of us struggle with. I urge you to grab a Bible and research.

If you believe that women are second class citizens, you are not doing it right. (John 4)

If you believe that people of different races are lesser than you, you are not doing it right. (Galatians 3:28)

If you believe that Christians from other countries are not equal to American Christians, you are not doing it right. (1 Corinthians 12: 12-13)

If you believe that the lost do not deserve our attention (rapists, child molesters, murderers, your atheist neighbor, people from Kenya, Sellersburg, and Iceland, Muslims, ISIS, the Taliban, everyone), you are not doing it right. (Romans 5:8/ John 3:16)

Some of you are reading the above and thinking, some of you are reading it and rolling your eyes.

I teach Psychology and Sociology, I understand how hard it is to overcome our upbringings, our biases, and our surroundings.

But as followers of Jesus, we must feel transformed by the Holy Spirit.

We must evaluate our lives and ask are we setting a Godly example of change?

It’s hard, trust me, I understand.

Because I fail too often.

But by growing as Jesus did, you should be transformed as a believer. Your heart should ache for not just the obvious horrific things that occur, but also for the remaining victims of sinners mainly their family and friends.

We should feel some remorse for the extreme sinner themselves realizing that they lack a relationship with Jesus and have been overcome by the sinful, evil world and are headed for an eternity separated from God in Hell.