The Holy Spirit says, “Therefore leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ, let us go on unto perfection, not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works” (Hebrews 6:1), and so on, “But let us go on unto perfection.
Right now I see across the Christian culture those who are having a really hard time, the enemy of our soul is attacking us from every direction. The onslaught is strategic by the Lord to propel us into all HE has for us. If we look at Israel we will see that when they got stuck and started to coast and maybe decline the Lord sent a nation to put pressure on them and rile them up. This would cause them to go back to the Lord and renew their commitment to God. We are stuck in many ways in the church. All of our lectures are about elementary things and we are happy to learn them, but God has called us into deeper things in Him. What I see happening is that the things we have always lived in that are not mature God is attacking with a vengeance to cause us to mature in them. For me at one time it was anger, people would say that I was always angry even though I didn’t feel that way. But the problem was that I had become so comfortable with the way I reacted to events it blinded me to really see what was a angry response. I had to take the scripture to see what God thought of my reaction to things. Boy I found so many things that I did were a result from anger that I didn’t see it. After that God helped to deliver me and I started to change the way I reacted to show more of the fruit of the Spirit. The same is true of manipulation, control, criticality, lust, greed, pride…. We can’t go by what we think, we have to take our life and hold it in the light of scripture and allow the Lord to reveal what our fruit really is. When we are just happy with who we are and just expect others to deal with it and accept us then we are living in elementary teachings and this is dead fruit. It keeps us from growing into maturity. We do not want the true light of Christ to reveal who we are and accept His grace to change it. We are comfortable and do not want to change well without change there is no growth. Growth is necessary in all things and we have to become like Jesus and allow the things that are not Godly to fall off and allow the things that are Godly to grow in us. We have to allow His grace in our lives and allow the fruit of it to change us.
