Summer
2000
Leaving
Our Spiritual Comfort Zone
Penny Smith
There are various processings which the Lord employs to bring
us into spiritual maturity. Our spiritual age is not measured
chronologically, but experientially. It is a matter of spiritual
hunger and how committed and obedient we are.
Just as there are those who for one reason or another, never
reach a level of maturation which coincides with their physical
growth, there are born again Christians who remain immature,
or under-developed.
Not everyone will go "all the way" with the Lord,
and therefore they are under-developed in certain areas of
their spiritual being. This means that they have not grown
towards the measure and stature of Christ at the pace in which
they could have grown.
The miracle is that our Lord is a God of new beginnings.
We can, this very moment, be forgiven for the shortcomings
of the past and begin a life of commitment and obedience to
Him.
The Lord is waiting to take us further.