Have you ever went to bed at night and wished you could wake up mature? Wouldn't it be great to wake up in the morning not as a new infant believer but as a spiritually mature adult? That in the morning everything would be different about your life? I think any Christian who is really walking in the Spirit would say to themself: "I want to be spiritually mature" "I want to be spiritually effective" "I want to be all that God wants me to be." And that is fine to have that wish and to have that kind of desire but it only comes to pass when you build your life on certain fundamentals and basics.
If you study sports you will find that the best coaches will drill their athletes on certain basic fundamentals. There are certain athletic type events that demand proper foundational principles. Any good team and any good athlete have either mastered or will at least continue to focus on the fundamentals of their sport.
Well that is true also in the spiritual dimension. No one is going to wake up profound, wake up skilled in ministry, spiritually acute, wise, or able to apply all spiritual truth to all dimensions of ones life. How great would that be if it could happen? Well it doesn't. But we can put ourself on the road to where we see that take place more and more in our Christian life. We must learn at some point in our Christian experience that we must apply ourself to certain spiritual fundaments. To the basics of Christian living if we are going to be mature, if we are going to be effective, if we are going to be all that God wants us to be.
Some might say that the basics/fundamentals are prayer and bible study. But I would say that having an attitude of submission is the foundation and basic to all. Not only living with an attitude of submission to one another as Paul points out in Ephesians, and to the Christian and church leadership in your life as is pointed out in I Peter and Hebrews. But also having an attitude of submission to the Lord in regards to prayer and bible study. Because if you dont have the fundamental attitude of submission when you read Gods Word then you are going to question it, fight against, and rebel against it rather than submit to what God is telling you. If you do not have an attitude of submission when it comes to prayer then you will not pray as Jesus did, "not my will but Thine be done" and then be willing to obey and do it.
Yes, no one wants to stay a baby or even act like a new born believer all their life. We all want to grow and become what God wants us to be. The way to do that is build into our lives the basics of Christian living and it all begins with the fundamental attitude of submission
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