Areas of Personal Growth
We had just finished our quarterly combine team rally. The worship led by Shirley and the youth band was truly awesome. The tangible presence and awe of God was experienced by many. The Filipino group took the meeting another notch higher with their hand mime performance entitled the “Heart of One”. All of us were truly blessed by their performance.
I taught about growing like Jesus had grown while he was on planet earth. We need to be intentional, and not left it to be accidental, in our growth. Although Jesus was sinless, he still continued to grow from strength to strength and glory to greater glory. Thus as his followers, we need to follow in his steps.
We learnt from Luke 2:52 about Jesus’ development.
Luke 2:52
And Jesus grew in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and men.
The four areas of Jesus growth were as follows…
1)We Need To Grow In Our Mental Capability
Jesus grew in wisdom. He developed his mental capability and capacity. We need to love God with our mind. We need to be reading more, spending more time to reflect and asking questions to people who are ahead of us in certain areas of our lives.
2)We Need To Grow In Our Physical Health
Jesus also developed in his physical stature. We need to watch our diet as well as exercise regularly. Being sick and sluggish is not honoring God with our bodies.
3)We Need To Grow In Our Spiritual Being
To grow in favor with God is basically to have a stronger and closer relationship with Him. When we have a close relationship with God, it will affect all other areas of our lives.
4)We Need To Grow In Our Social Life
Lastly, Jesus grew in favor with men as well. To love God and to love people are the greatest commandments for our lives. We need to be developing closer relationship with people inside and outside (at this moment) of the Kingdom.
All of us who are Christ-followers need to be intentional and deliberate in developing these growth areas in our lives.
May Christ-likeness be formed in us more and more.
I taught about growing like Jesus had grown while he was on planet earth. We need to be intentional, and not left it to be accidental, in our growth. Although Jesus was sinless, he still continued to grow from strength to strength and glory to greater glory. Thus as his followers, we need to follow in his steps.
We learnt from Luke 2:52 about Jesus’ development.
Luke 2:52
And Jesus grew in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and men.
The four areas of Jesus growth were as follows…
1)We Need To Grow In Our Mental Capability
Jesus grew in wisdom. He developed his mental capability and capacity. We need to love God with our mind. We need to be reading more, spending more time to reflect and asking questions to people who are ahead of us in certain areas of our lives.
2)We Need To Grow In Our Physical Health
Jesus also developed in his physical stature. We need to watch our diet as well as exercise regularly. Being sick and sluggish is not honoring God with our bodies.
3)We Need To Grow In Our Spiritual Being
To grow in favor with God is basically to have a stronger and closer relationship with Him. When we have a close relationship with God, it will affect all other areas of our lives.
4)We Need To Grow In Our Social Life
Lastly, Jesus grew in favor with men as well. To love God and to love people are the greatest commandments for our lives. We need to be developing closer relationship with people inside and outside (at this moment) of the Kingdom.
All of us who are Christ-followers need to be intentional and deliberate in developing these growth areas in our lives.
May Christ-likeness be formed in us more and more.
posted by Jeff Chong at 9:03 pm
5 Comments:
Wow! It's very meaningful! I learnt a lot from it. Ps Jeff, I got some questions... wonder if you can help me?
After your sermon on Saturday about work, I was thinking,
(1) How can one find out his/her God-given talents? and
(2) How can I combine my passion with work?
Love in Christ,
YA
It's great to have the outline of the sermon, though I missed the meeting due to work.
Hi Yeu Ann,
There are such test (eg SHAPE)that can help us. We can also talk to people who knows us and loves us to find out more.
When we know our talents and our passion, we can then go about serachign for a suitable work. One of the keys is to talk to people who are in the industry that you are interested in to find out more about the work.
Hope this helps.
YA: another way is to try some well-developed tools. I attended this seminar by S'pore Bible Soceity called Uniquely You. Very interesting 'cos it also matches your personality with natural giftings.
Ps Jeff: On point 2 Physical Healther, another way to lose weight, which is becoming popular, is to do weight training. Why? 'cos more muscle (& more mass) means burn more calories even when not exercising ;-)
Wow, thanks a lot, Ps Jeff and Soo Guan! Will take note of the advice you gave me. =D
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