How Do We Grow?

How Do We Grow?

How do we grow? By strength or resolve can we make it so?

Can we shape the course of our lives according to our purpose and designs or add a single hour to the measure of our time?

How can we ever venture into what is unknown when we are incapable of the smallest change on our own?

Looking back over the span of our lives we can see the marks that testify to how far we’ve come; How much we’ve grown; How much of his grace we have been shown.   The marks of maturity on our lives, the evidence of the work of Christ.

The seed that he has planted in our heart, the Lord has also watered and will refine every part. It is his intention to give it growth until it comes to fruition. He has sealed it with his oath; that he who began this good work in you will see it through.                                                         In this lies our hope; not in what we do.

But we do not grow alone.  Our roots are intertwined one with another so that your strength is mine.

While we wait in expectation no growth can be seen. The tender shoots that so quickly spring up must grow strong,                                          less they remain frail and green.

Would we be overwhelmed by perils in store that his timing seeks to prepare us for? Let us endure our trials with patience, For it’s in his goodness that we trust and hold fast to our commitment; Resting in his faithfulness to us.

His goal is for our good, on this our assurance falls; That he who began this good work will surely make it grow tall!