Growth is not only applicable physically because it covers all aspects of your well-being. It is primarily defined as the slow enhancement of the different factors of a person’s being, such as maturity, height, age, and more. Your mental, emotional, and spiritual health develops along with your physical well-being. One of the most overlooked sides of people’s health is their spiritual health. Some may take this as something of lesser important but it is, in fact, the most important of all. You can always see how your body and mind changes but you cannot instantly evaluate the things that have been added or subtracted pertaining to your spiritual health.
Being spiritually healthy is already good news but growing spiritually is the best news to receive. There may be times that you already thought that your connection to God has been lost and the more you think about it, the more hollow you feel inside. However, your bond with the Almighty Father will never be lost for you have been baptized as a Christian and until then, you will remain a Christian. There are a lot of things that will help you maintain and develop your spiritual well-being, such as hearing the word of the Lord or reading Christian books. The latter is a good leisure activity that will help you get slowly mature and get closer to Him; take for example the steps of growth as a Christian by Marianna Albritton.
If you want to know what the essence of growth as a Christian is truly, then you are on the right page! Listed below are the important factors that will inform you on how vital growth is:
It helps you on becoming a better follower of God
From the moment that you are baptized as a Christian, you already have become a disciple of God. Your connection between Him started and you have been welcomed to the Christian world. The only thing that will create a distance between your relationship with Him is growth, complicated isn’t it? For better understanding, growth is the main agent that can either make or break your bond with God because it can shift your whole mindset about religion or can blossom and strengthen your belief and principle as all of you become to improve and develop. The latter is more favorable for it will help you on becoming a better follower of God. As days goes by, you will appreciate all the things that he has done to you and all the blessings that he has bestowed upon you. Every day you will live with a smile on your face knowing that every step you take is in accordance to His will.
It enhances your decision-making ability
Each person is granted with a rational thinking ability, which is the capability to distinguish what is right from what is wrong. Aside from that, people are also granted with the ability to make decisions. These two can be somehow confused with one another because of their similar attributes. However, the one must go along with the other in order for you to create a completely right and beneficial decision. There may be moments in your life that your rational thinking has been clouded resulting to poor decision-making. Life has become a mess that you almost cannot find a way to untangle each string. But when you reached spiritual maturity, your decision-making ability will develop along with it. You can make better decisions that will not harm you and others around you. Also, these decisions are also better for they based on His will. As a result, you are not deciding alone but you are making decisions together with the Lord.
It drives you farther away from temptations
Temptations will always be present in this world. They are the things that make your life either a living hell or a complete deception. These temptations can come in different forms where some appear wearing silk clothes but rotten cores while others are fully dressed in ugliness but still have the power to influence people. But when you start to grow as a Christian, you can open your eyes and see the temptations that are lurking in the shadows trying to drag people down. You will start to realize that they are not the jewel and fun that they appear to be but instead they are the opposite. As a result, you will slowly eject yourself from these evils and begin to walk to the path that God has laid for you from the start. You will not become tempted by these deceiving things. Turning your back from these temptations will be the best option that you have made and it is one of the perks of growing spiritually and strengthening your belief in the Almighty Father.
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