Spiritual Growth & Physical Growth

Spiritual growth is, in large measure, patterned on the nature of physical growth. We do not expect to put an infant into its crib at night and in the morning find a child, an adolescent or yet an adult. We expect that infant to grow into maturity according to the processes that God has ordained for physical growth to wholeness. The same thing is true of our spiritual life. Yes, there are spurts of growth in our spiritual development. A few years ago I had a little boy. Then, within a year, he became a man.

He went through one of those adolescent growth spurts. He grew almost a foot…