Search Our Blog Posts
Blog Article Tags
We love building relationships. Subscribe to our blog to receive weekly encouragement in your email inbox.
- Details
Spiritual maturity is something we respect in others and desire for ourselves. We would rather it come automatically, but it is a process and a faith journey, not a destination.
One of the most obvious signs of someone’s spiritual maturity is their faith. When difficulties arise, they trust in God. This does not imply that they do not have to deal with the emotional aspects of the current challenge. Nor does it imply that they will not be tired and weary from the fight. However, they continue to trust in God, and they get push it all by keeping their eyes fixed on Him.
We cannot force or rush spiritual maturity. It comes through faithfulness in our relationship with God and continual communication with Him. The confidence that comes through faith carries us through the current situation and we are then prepared for whatever else comes our way in the future.
In addition, when we demonstrate spiritual maturity, manifested by our faith, we serve as an example to others in their own faith journey.
1 Peter 1:3-9 affirms that faith is a part of our growth and maturity process. We may not appreciate it in the moment, but when we look back, we are able to recognize all that God has done in the midst of our circumstances, every step along the way, and our faith is strengthened yet again.
3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! According to his great mercy, he has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, 4 to an inheritance that is imperishable, undefiled, and unfading, kept in heaven for you, 5 who by God's power are being guarded through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time. 6 In this you rejoice, though now for a little while, if necessary, you have been grieved by various trials, 7 so that the tested genuineness of your faith—more precious than gold that perishes though it is tested by fire—may be found to result in praise and glory and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ. 8 Though you have not seen him, you love him. Though you do not now see him, you believe in him and rejoice with joy that is inexpressible and filled with glory, 9 obtaining the outcome of your faith, the salvation of your souls.
#IronRoseSister #faith #Jesus #assurance
- Details
I’m stuck; there’s no way out!
There is no way this is really happening to me.
How did I get myself into this situation?
Does anyone care or know that I am here?
Have you ever asked those questions or felt that way? Joseph did. Literally.
He was stuck in the bottom of a pit with no apparent way out. Yes, being in the pit was better than being dead, but death was still a possibility if there was no way out... So, what was he to do?
Trust.
• Trust that God saw him in the pit.
• Trust that God was bigger than his current circumstances.
• Trust that God had a bigger plan.
• Trust that God had already sent the caravan ahead of time so that it would be passing by at the exact moment he had been thrown into the pit.
Genesis 37:24-28
24 And they took him and threw him into a pit. The pit was empty; there was no water in it. 25 Then they sat down to eat. And looking up they saw a caravan of Ishmaelites coming from Gilead, with their camels bearing gum, balm, and myrrh, on their way to carry it down to Egypt. 26 Then Judah said to his brothers, “What profit is it if we kill our brother and conceal his blood? 27 Come, let us sell him to the Ishmaelites, and let not our hand be upon him, for he is our brother, our own flesh.” And his brothers listened to him. 28 Then Midianite traders passed by. And they drew Joseph up and lifted him out of the pit, and sold him to the Ishmaelites for twenty shekels of silver. They took Joseph to Egypt.
Are you in a difficult situation? Feeling stuck? At a loss to know how to get out or if things will get better?
Trust.
• Trust that God sees you in the pit.
• Trust that God is bigger than your current circumstances.
• Trust that God has a bigger plan.
• Trust that the caravan is coming. It is probably already on its way.
#IronRoseSister #MichelleJGoff #faith #trust