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By Rick Warren
“It’s crucial that we keep a firm grip on what we’ve heard so that we don’t drift off.”
As you grow to spiritual maturity, you’ll have to cooperate with God in the process. One way to do that is to believe God is working in your life, even when you don’t feel it.
Spiritual growth is sometimes tedious work one small step at a time. Expect gradual improvement, not giant leaps.
“Everything on earth has its own time and its own season” (Ecclesiastes 3:1 CEV). Your spiritual life has seasons too. Sometimes you will have a short, intense burst of growth (spring) followed by a period of stabilizing and testing (fall and winter).
On May 24, 2021, in the early morning hours, our beloved “Moppy” Michele Long, age 74, passed away peacefully. She was surrounded by family and went to her heavenly home.
That simplifies life enormously!
Jesus said,
“I don’t try to please myself, but I try to please the One who sent me” (John 5:30 NCV). He’s saying, in effect, “I’m living for an audience of one.”
Did you know that people-pleasing is a form of idolatry? The first commandment in the Ten Commandments says,
“You shall have no other gods before me” (Exodus 20:3 NIV).
Anything you put before God becomes a god. So a boat could be a god. A career could be a god. A girlfriend could be a god. Golf could be a god. Anything that becomes number one in your life that isn’t God becomes your god.