Day 236: God is Building Us

1 Peter 2:2-5

Like newborn infants, long for the pure spiritual milk, that by it you may grow up into salvation— if indeed you have tasted that the Lord is good As you come to him, a living stone rejected by men but in the sight of God chosen and precious, you yourselves like living stones are being built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

Today I want to talk about growing in God, and how as we draw closer to Him we grow more in every area of our lives. Our faith grows more, our knowledge of who He is and His word grow. Our passion for Him grows. Every area of our life is enhanced. The more we grow in the Lord the more we become like Christ. We become better people overall. I love the analogy of a baby longing for milk. A baby craves it’s mother’s milk, because it has all the nutrients needed to help the baby grow into a child. The milk of the mother is bringing life to the child. In the same way, when we give our lives to Christ we are like newborn babies, and we crave that spiritual milk from Him so that we may grow in our faith. The scriptures tells us to long for the pure spiritual milk. The milk that causes us to grow up in our salvation. What if that milk is the blood of Jesus, the word of God, the Holy Spirit, everything that points us to a life of salvation and eternity. That’s the secret right there, if we want to grow in our faith, if we want to continue to grow and not stay stagnate, we must long for the word of God, and allow that word to take root in us so that ours lives begin to change to look like Christ’s. We must long to follow the only living God. We must seek His face, and through His word God will build us into the men and women of God He has always planned for us to be. Through our prayer, and longing for Him, He will build us up.

Like a baby it takes time, many times, things don’t happen overnight. We have to go through some things. We have to be cleansed. We have to let go of a few things and people in our lives before we can grow. We have to be rejected like Jesus. But when alls said and done we will  realize what god was doing all along. Sometimes we don’t understand why He’s doing certain things in our lives, we don’t understand why things are going the way they are. We don’t understand what’s going on at that moment in time. But just hold on, keep longing for that pure spiritual milk, keep going and keep growing and when it’s all said and done, we will realize that He was building us. He was shaping us and moulding us. In Isaiah 55:8-9 it says, “For my thoughts are not your thought, neither are your ways my ways, declares the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts higher than your thoughts.” God always knows the plan, even when we don’t understand it. He is constantly building us up, and making us into the vessels that He will use to bring glory to Him and His kingdom. We must learn to accept that sometimes, we aren’t going to get what God is doing until He is done. We won’t have answers until He reveals them to us, But in the meantime, we must continue to trust Him and seek His face. We must continue to seek that pure spiritual milk that He speaks of in order for us to grow. We can grow in the moments of uncertainty as well. It’s in those moments when we learn to trust God and have faith.

All this to say, if we want to grow in Christ, if we want to grow in our faith we must push towards Him and draw near to Him. We must lean on His word and lean towards Him.

Reflection

1. What is something that stood out to you today?
2. Are there times in your life when you don’t understand what God is doing?
3. If those times have passed can you look back and see how He was using your situation then to make you who you are now?

Prayer Time

Allow your answers to the above questions guide your prayer today. Talk to God about spiritual growth and whatever it is on your heart today. Have a conversation with Him.

I love you and I hope you have an amazing day or evening! Be sure to share this with someone and come back tomorrow for Day 237!