Get Off The Circle Line - Pt 2

This is the continuation from pt 1 of the message.


The effects of change:-

1. Aging - This is about growing old
2. Maturation - Growing up, being fruitful, multiplying.

Proverbs 4:18
¹⁸ The path of the righteous is like the morning sun, shining ever brighter till the full light of day.
You  change by vacating one position to occupy a new and higher position. Taking steps is the way to move to the next level. A step is a walk into something new and a new environment. As with climbing steps, releasing your standing leg is difficult because it is already on familiar ground and quite comfortable there. When you refuse to change, you result in irrelevance.

Basic things about maturation:-
Change - With maturation comes change. You get tested which results in being shown approved to move to the next stage. If you get promoted without a test you become a danger to yourself and others. The higher you go, the greater your influence.

With every test comes a temptation. Hebrews 12:1
¹ Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles. And let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us
John 15:2   
² He cuts off every branch in me that bears no fruit, while every branch that does bear fruit he prunes so that it will be even more fruitful.

Things to consider:-

1. How have i changed recently?
2. Can you be very specific about the things in your life over the last month, year?
3. Do i make daily adjustments?

Maturation or Growth is a choice. 1Corinthians 13:11

¹¹ When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me.