Daily Devotional for Monday, June 20

Growth to Maturity

Paul was an extremely intensive teacher. He would arrive in a town and teach Jews in the synagogue. Anyone who believed, he would take him to a house and teach him everything he knew about Jesus from the Old Testament Scriptures. One night, he taught so long that a young lad went to sleep and fell out the window. Paul had to stop teaching, go down and raise him to life and went right back to teaching them all the mysteries of the kingdom before moving on to the next town. He wanted people to be saved and immediately to begin growing in their faith, studying the Scriptures, serving in one of the Lord’s churches and witnessing to the lost. 

“And I, brethren, when I came to you, came not with excellency of speech or of wisdom, declaring unto you the testimony of God. For I determined not to know any thing among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified” (1 Corinthians 2:1). There was a reason Paul could not teach these former cult worshipers the deep things of God. “And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ. I have fed you with milk, and not with meat: for hitherto ye were not able to bear it, neither yet now are ye able. For ye are yet carnal” (1 Corinthians 3:1-3). 

God has no speed limit for learning His Word and growing in ones’ faith.

Thought: Some new Christians cannot get enough. Like Paul taught in Romans 12:2, as a caterpillar turns into a butterfly, they gorge themselves on the Word, mature quickly, and God can use them in His kingdom work.

Robert Brock