HEBREWS 6:1 (BBE) “For this reason let us go on from the first things about Christ to full growth; not building again that on which it is based, that is, the turning of the heart from dead works, and faith in God.”

KEYWORD: In the place of total dependence on the Holy Spirit, trust in God is firmly established.

There comes a certain time in life when you must mature in your inner man if you truly desire to go far in the things of the Spirit. Maturity comes with growth, and growth comes with responsibility.

For instance, when you were a child, you would often expect things to be done for you. You might cry when you did not get what you wanted, the way you wanted it, and when you wanted it. Such behaviour can be tolerated from a child. However, there comes an age when those same actions are no longer acceptable because that child is expected to have matured beyond them. At that stage, the child begins to take responsibility, getting things done without waiting on others.

This same principle applies to the things of the Spirit. As you mature in the faith, your total dependence on the Holy Spirit increases and deepens daily. You begin to live life from a place of rest, confident in the One you have been called to follow. You are no longer lack-conscious, overly mindful of what is missing around you, because you understand that abundance has already been made available to you in Christ.

In the place of total dependence on the Holy Spirit, trust in God is firmly established. Obedience to His instructions no longer becomes a struggle, even when they do not make physical sense. This is because you have grown to trust the Lord completely, knowing His ability and understanding that He is too wise and too experienced to rehearse with your life.
Part of maturing in the faith is embracing God’s training, pruning, and stretching with joy. You recognise that you are a soldier of Christ who requires discipline and preparation. Through this process, you cultivate spiritual virtues such as patience, perseverance, self-control, and perfect love.
No training feels pleasant at the moment, but when you yield to it, it produces the peaceable fruits of righteousness. It thoroughly furnishes you for good works and enables you to bear lasting fruits—fruits that abide over time, as required of every believer. Hallelujah!

PRAYER:
Lord, I worship and exalt Your holy name. I thank You for the truth of Your Word that has come to me. I receive it with gladness and grow by it, becoming a better and more mature believer in the name of Jesus Christ. Amen.

FURTHER STUDY:
1 CORINTHIANS 13:11 “When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.”
EPHESIANS 4:13 “Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ:”