There are people who are born and
brought up in a Christ centered family. Even for those people, there will be a
point in life when they need to analyse themselves, repent and accept
Christ as their personal saviour.
When you are saved, you will have
peace and joy in your heart and your spiritual life will be very joyful. You’ll
read the word of God, study it, meditate upon it, pray and have a great
communion with God.
As the days goes, God wants to
provide you with new knowledge and wisdom about him. So you have to go through
tests and He will help you to go through it. With each and every test you pass,
you gain new spiritual meanings about the word of God and will get closer with
Him.
A student who is in 10th
grade will not study 2nd grade subjects because he/she had already
gone through that grade. Same way when you are developed in Christ, you will no
longer be that same born again believer, but will get more meaningful life with
respect to the scriptures.
Apostle Paul talks about it as
for a baby you cannot give solid food, but only milk. When the baby grows you
can give solid food. When you are new to Christ, the evil behaviour inside you
may not change. Only your spiritual thought will change, but your character
changes as you develop in Christ. For a person to develop in Christ, he/she
needs help from other mature believers, same way a plant grows. One person sow
the seeds, another water it. In spiritual world, one evangelise about Christ,
another teaches you and another may show you to live a life worth as a
believer. Even if all these things happen, it’s God’s responsibility to make
you grow with respect to the choices he gives you (1 Corinthians 3).
Once you start growing in Christ,
accepting tests and overcome it by the help of Jesus, more spiritual maturity
and wisdom comes in life. Jesus taught how the commandments given to Israel can
be taken serious in a believer’s life.
When you are angry with someone,
according to the Bible, you are violating the commandment “You must not
murder”. (Mathew 5). In the same way
you are violating this commandment when you call someone idiot or curse anyone.
Christ teaches us not to burden our heart with anger or jealousy, but to have
peace within and out.
When Jesus taught the commandment
about adultery, when a man/woman looks at other with lust in their eyes/heart,
they have already committed adultery. He even strongly warned them to take off
that part, whether your eyes and throw it instead of poisoning the whole body
to hell.
People say lies. But some take
vows. But when you are a believer of Jesus, you will say “yes I will” or “no I won’t”
instead of taking any vow. Christ teaches that any beyond this is evil (Mathew 5: 21-37)
Once you come to Christ, it’s
only about salvation. As you grow in Christ, it will be about life and death,
blessings and curses and so on.
In short, when you live according
to the word of God and in Integrity, without your knowledge God will lift you
high and provide you peace, joy and happiness in all situations of life to be
an example. May the Lord provide you wisdom to understand this process of
growing in Christ and help you to be a part of it and live a testimonial life.
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