me recently an English-language award went to the Hand: " When growth stops !, decay starts " Translation: " If growth stops, decay begins " The award was related to our life as a Christian!.
In German there is a similar, though not quite as drastic saying: "Standing still is in decline" we say. And I think that both sayings testify - again based spiritual life - the truth.
Paul calls it the normal thing to grow in faith.
We hope to grow your faith and take our work among you is becoming more widely. (2 Corinthians 10:15)
He encourages us to grow together:
Let us but speak the truth in love and hinwachsen in particular to him, the all, is Christ. (Ephesians 4:15)
Jesus in the parable shows that the growth continues to the last.
Let both grow together until the harvest, and at the time of harvest I will say to the reapers: First collect the weeds and bind them in bundles to burn them: but gather the wheat into my barn. (Matthew 13:30)
Peter makes a call to growth:
But grow in grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ! (2 Peter 3:18)
If we now encourages and calls upon God's word to grow, then any time of the arrest of real decline. Then any failure to take life, in reality, life loss, and thus decay.
growth can not always be observed. But it can be determined in retrospect. Look back to the last 6 months. Can you find growth? Can your spouse, find your people in the community, your friend growth? It should be! How do we grow? Well, you could call several points:
healthy food for healthy growth is essential.
Healthy Food = God's Word!
For healthy growth of cultivated food culture is necessary.
Cultivated food culture = regular time with the Lord, alone and with others!
For healthy growth of a healthy social environment is important
healthy social environment = regular community life
For healthy growth is to deal with everyday germs necessary
discussion = testimony against dissenters
More than you even want God that you grow in life with Him. Take some 4 points to heart and you will be positively surprised. Neglect them, and it will affect your spiritual life as a vitamin deficiency affects your body. First, you realize not much. Then you get tired, flabby, vulnerable. Spiritual regression begins. Where life should flourish, it faded. Our light faded. Let us keep to the Lord, we stay in His presence - then we should not have to worry regarding spiritual decline or even spiritual decay.
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