Tuesday 2/5/2013 5:03 AM
We in the Christian community are encouraged to grow in our
faith. Any sign that our faith is on
hold or, heaven forbid, ebbing is met with renewed spiritual fervor in an
attempt to jumpstart a new cycle of growth.
Today I read an excerpt from Howard Thurman’s book The Growing Edge in which he reminds me
that there is nothing in life that experiences unlimited growth. Both plants and animals grow for a period of
time and then simply maintain the life they have. Thurman writes, “I am always reminded that
the experience which may be mine at a particular moment may be an experience in
which things are stopping. Or it may be
an experience in which things are just beginning. It is important that I know which process is
taking place. An intimate part of
growing into life is the development of a sensitiveness, an apprehension of
process in its totality, that I may be enabled to know the character of the
event with which I am dealing. Then I
will not act in the house of death unnaturally by not accepting it. All of this is to say that there is inherent
in life and brooding over the life of man the creative mind and the spirit of
the living God.”
I need to be less concerned about the growth of my faith
and concern myself more with knowing God, trusting him to do the necessary
brooding over my life to determine which areas to grow and which to kill
off. In a word, maintain.
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