It's Time to Get Growing
It’s Time To Get Growing
Can I be honest? I remember almost nothing from my K-12 education. Sure, it’s weaved into the fabric of who I am as an adult, but I don’t remember much of it.
I don’t remember how to solve any formulas.
I don’t know grammar. (Some of you knew that already)
I don’t remember history off the top of my head.
However, I do remember one thing.
"An object in motion wants to stay in motion."
Newton must have had a marketing background because that first law is catchy. It’s burned into my memory like the McDonald’s theme song from the 90s.
Here’s my point, if it’s true that an object in motion wants to stay in motion, then the flipside of that is also true. An object at rest wants to stay at rest. (This is, in fact, the other part of the first law.)
In our walk with God, if we are not actively taking steps forward and moving in faith, then our tendency is going to be to sit still and not do anything. Literally, a stagnant faith wants to stay stagnant. And active faith wants to stay active.
Mr. Unger, our secondary principal, challenged our high school boys to take one step deeper in their faith this week.
Imagine the beach.
Some of us are in the sand, some of us have our feet in the water, and some of us are waist deep in the ocean.
If you’ve been to the beach, you know that each step deeper into the water gets more and more difficult. There’s something about cold water, hitting the bare of your back that makes you wanna jump back into the sand! It’s difficult and uncomfortable.
But, once you make it deep into the water, it’s hard to leave. You’ve made it out there and you’re able to enjoy the ocean for all its glory.
The same is 100% true in our faith.
Steps of faith are often incredibly uncomfortable. It gets more and more difficult to follow Jesus the closer we get to actually living like Jesus. It goes against the grain of our culture at large and sometimes even against the grain of our friend groups.
But what’s true about the ocean is also true about going deep with God.
We don’t know what we’re missing out on until we are swimming in God’s ocean of grace, truth, and filling of the Holy Spirit. Absolutely nothing in this world compares to being faithfully obedient to God and seeing the fruit from that.
But, as I mentioned. An object of motion wants to stay in motion and an object at rest wants to stay at rest.
And active faith wants to stay active.
A stagnant faith wants to stay stagnant.
The task before us is to choose every morning to cultivate an active faith. If we have placed faith in Christ, the Holy Spirit lives in us and therefore we are empowered to say no to our flesh—which wants to be stagnant—and yes to the Spirit inside of us that wants to be active.
Said simply: because of God at work in our lives, we can choose to grow every day.
You, like Paul, want to be able to say that you’ve finished your race.
7I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith.
–2 Timothy 4:7
How do we finish the race? By putting one foot in front of the other, never quitting, and pushing through. We submit our bodies, our minds, our hearts, our souls, and our will to the power of God at work within us and we seek first the Kingdom of God and all God’s righteousness.
So…
Will you choose growth today?
Will you choose an active faith?
Or will you choose to be stagnant? Setting the stage for stagnation tomorrow, the next day, and every day after that.
If you’re ready to start, here’s a previous post on 10 ways to activate your faith this year.
God is at work around us. It’s time to join him. Reject passivity in this season of your life and choose to embrace the responsibility you have to cultivate a faith that moves forward, regardless of your circumstances.
–Brandon Moore
We are wrapping up Titus Chapter 2 this week in Chapel. Titus 2:11-15 is the passage.
Mr. Braden Tutt will be preaching Middle School Chapel
Mr. Luke Harper will be preaching Secondary Chapel