The Growing Season

Our daughter, Ginger, has many wonderful attributes like all our children.   Among her great qualities is that she does so well in chronicling the story of her family with pictures.      Ginger lives in Colorado Springs, Colorado with her husband and two children where her husband is stationed with the United States Army.    A few weeks ago,  Ginger shared on social media two pictures of her two children.  One picture was taken on their first day of school.  The second picture was taken on their last day of the school year.  As any grandparent,  I am always excited to see any pictures of my grandchildren.  One of the things that stood out in the two pictures of my oldest grand-daughter, Lillian, was how much she had grown during the school year.   It was obvious that she had grown several inches over the course of 9 months. 

This is the growing season  in my part of the world.   Grass, flowers, and the like are growing outside my window.      In a few days, the grass will need to be mowed again because it has grown.  In a few weeks,  I hope that growth of my tomato plants will bring fruit to be enjoyed on our table and on my palette.      What is not always so obvious is the way that people grow in their mind and spirit.     Are you growing in your love for God and neighbor?     The apostle Paul knows that Christian growth is the aim and he expresses it this way in Ephesians 4:  11-13 where he writes:

 ¹¹ So Christ himself gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the pastors and teachers, ¹² to equip his people for works of service, so that the body of Christ may be built up ¹³ until we all reach unity in the faith and in the knowledge of the Son of God and become mature, attaining to the whole measure of the fullness of Christ.

Whatever age we might be, there is always room to grow in our service to and in our relationship to Christ.  Keep on growing.  Have a joy-filled week.--  Pastor Randy Wall 

Prayer:    O God, thank you for my life.   Help me to honor you with my life as I continue to grow in my relationship with you and in my service to you and others;  through Christ our Lord.  Amen.