The Daily Guide
A time to grow
All creation is yearning, longing to see the manifestation of the sons of God.
Romans 8:19 - Weymouth's translation
All creation is longing to see us visibly express our heavenly sonship. It is yearning to see the saints standing in real maturity. There is a clamouring in the earth for us to grow up! See Eph.4:13
The Church is to the world its saving grace! The time is coming when the Church will be taken out of the world. When that happens the world starts to plunge into destruction. It's Christ returning with His saints to rule on the earth that turns things around. In the meantime, what the world needs now is God's people, the Church, coming to stand in the measure of the stature of the fullness Christ. As that starts to happen, it will become more and more evident to the world that we are indeed the children of God. It is this that all creation is longing for. How will it ever happen? It will happen as you and I grow up in Christ to maturity in Him! See Rev.6:12-17, Dan.2:44, Zech.14:3-5, Rev.19:11-16, 20:6, Ro.8:29.
The world needs you to grow up in Christ. It's what Christ Himself is looking for from you. By His Spirit and by His anointing He is ministering in the Church to bring this about. How does spiritual growth and maturity come about? It comes by Christ's ministry into your life and happens to the extent that you make a spiritual response to it. You grow up by the Word of God that you take to heart. You grow up through the ministry of other saints into your life. Feed on the Word, get under ministry, fellowship with the saints! See Eph.4:26-27, 4:11-16, 1Pet.2:1-2.
You are a blessing, increase in blessing!
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