We measure growth all sorts of ways. We track our children's growth and development by comparing video footage and pictures from the years gone by. We make pencil marks in the doorways of our laundry rooms to gauge the inches they acquire over the passing months. We even measure our own growing girth by stepping on the scale.Growth is easy to measure...isn't it?
One may know how to track the growing inches of a child, but how does one measure the spiritual development of a human being? An above average height may make someone a "giant", but what makes someone a spiritual saint?
If physical growth can be measured by yardsticks and scales, can spiritual growth be measured by Scripture memory and devotional length? Can spiritual growth be measured at all?
1 comment:
Great questions Dave. We don't ask these enough. It has both individual and communal implications. For me, I recognize some incremental growth when I am able to be patient with those closest to me (as they put up with me as well). Many times its about the little things...
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