Getting the Right Perspective
When I was a child, I thought, spoke and acted like a child but when I grew up, I put away childish things (1 Corinthians 13:11). Childhood can be a wonderful time of innocence, of learning and exploring mysteries and of seeing life from different points of view.
I watch children learning to walk, talk, create, make music, play and exercise, they are using parts of their bodies that are initially strange to them, but with proper guidance, they develop their talents along the paths that God has intended for them.
Just like children, God wants us to grow spiritually to maturity in our salvation. God expects us to grow up in Him. He says to be strong in the Lord and in the power of His might (Ephesians 6:10). As saints of the most High, He expects us to feed on His word, take His word in our hearts and learn and grow in Him.
We should be stronger in Him day by day so that eventually some of the things that upset, discouraged and stymied us when we were young in Christ should be relatively unimportant as we mature. The gossip that hurt you, the schemes that blocked you and the confrontations that disappointed you look very different as we grow in the Lord and have a mature perspective on life in Christ.
The Bible tells us that as we spend time with Him and grow into maturity with Him, He has different expectations of us. We thank God for the spiritual milk (1 Peter 2:2, 3), but God expects that we should become teachers of God’s word and eat solid foods for the mature (Hebrews 5:12-14).
God is looking for His children to share the good news and help new believers in their walk with Christ. We learn from our mistakes and failures and can then turn around and share our struggles with others and tell them that God delivered us and can do the same for them.
Today, God is calling for us to have a new and mature perspective on life with Christ. Old things have passed away and behold all things have become new (1 Corinthians 5:17). We have new blessings, new benefits, and most of a new perspective as we learn more and more about the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords.
1 Corinthians 13:11
New International Version
11 When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me.
Ephesians 6:10
New International Version
10 Finally, be strong in the Lord and in his mighty power.
1 Peter 2:2, 3
New International Version
2 Like newborn babies, crave pure spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow up in your salvation,
3 now that you have tasted that the Lord is good.
Hebrews 5:12-14
New International Version
12 In fact, though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you the elementary truths of God’s word all over again. You need milk, not solid food!
13 Anyone who lives on milk, being still an infant, is not acquainted with the teaching about righteousness.
14 But solid food is for the mature, who by constant use have trained themselves to distinguish good from evil.
1 Corinthians 5:17
New King James Version
17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new
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