A SIMPLE FAITH?

Proverbs 4:20-22 My child, pay attention to what I say. Listen carefully to my words. Don’t lose sight of them. Let them penetrate deep into your heart, for they bring life to those who find them, and healing to their whole body.

I was chatting with someone recently about Christian things and he was saying how he has a very simple faith and that was enough. He was letting me know he didn’t want to know any more than he did already. He’d got the basics and he was content to stay on square one! But God doesn’t want us to stay in the same spot all our lives. He has so much more for us and He wants us to grow.🙂 

It’s a bit like saying, “I know how to boil an egg and that’s all I need to know. I don’t need to learn how to make an omelette, I can survive on boiled eggs!”

God tells us in scripture to grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ (2 Peter 3:18), to grow in our faith, to go from the milk of the word to the meat of it (Hebrews 5:12-14), to pay attention to what He says and listen carefully to His words. He says to be a doer of the word and not a hearer only. (James 1:22)

We might be tempted to think they are just suggestions, but they are commands from our Commander in Chief!🙂 Now and again it’s good to stop and just check we’re doing what He said or are we hoping our excuses will be acceptable? ‘I’m too busy, too tired, not enough time.’ We’ve probably all done it in the past but we all manage to make time for something we want to do! If reading scripture has become a chore, that’s when we need to stop and look at what we’re doing. A red warning light is flashing!

We all begin with simple faith, but God is calling us to go deeper, to seek His face, to know Him more. He’s wanting us to grow.🙂 There is always more to know! God is exciting. He is not boring or miserable. He wants to pour His life and vitality, His joy and love into us so we can pour it out on others. 

Are we willing to ask the Holy Spirit for fresh insights, or do we want to stay with what we know, with the boiled eggs? Do we want to go from the understanding we have now to the more He has for us, to grow spiritually mature, to enter His supernatural realm of abundantly, above and beyond all we could ever ask or think! 

Lord give us, give me, a thirsting and hungering for more of You, a stronger desire to read Your word and find out what You’re saying to us. Give us the desire to get our priorities right while we still can and become spiritually mature. In Jesus Name. Amen.