Maturing in Christ

Ultimately, God plans for us to grow up in every way into being  Christ like.  Not  one of us is born  mature and fully developed either physically or spiritually. When we receive  Christ,   a new life develops which means we are born again and baby in the spirit, Christenters our inner being, causing us to be born again as a child of God. We enter God's family by pure grace, not because of any effort or virtue of our own. The moment we are born again, we have all the rights and privileges purchased for us by the death of our wonderful Lord, Jesus Christ. But we have to learn who we are, what is ours, and how to walk in it. We must learn to use the authority God has given us. The only reliable source of this information is the New Testament. When we are born again spiritually, we are born equipped with everything we will ever need, just as a human child is born
with a brain and all the muscles it will ever have. Yet, no baby can write textbooks or win athletic events. But we understand that they have that potential, needing only time and nutrition to grow and mature. We are born again spiritually with everything in place. We don't need to beg God to give us something else to put us over. We just need to grow and develop what God has already put
within us.Christianity is not just about being born again and going to Heaven. Being born again is just the first step. God intends for us to grow and mature.


 Until we all reach unity in the faith and in the knowledge of the Son of God and become mature, attaining to the whole measure of the fullness of Christ.  Then we will no longer be infants, tossed back and forth by the waves, and blown here and there by every wind of teaching and by the cunning and craftiness of people in their deceitful scheming. Instead, speaking the truth in love, we will grow to become in every respect the mature body of him who is the head, that is, Christ (Ephesians 4:13-15).