Spiritual Maturity in Christ

Today I will be blogging about a very important topic in our lives as Christians.  It is the important topic of spiritual maturity in Christ.
This topic was discussed at Dicipleship Focus last summer.  Will Wyatt who wrote the study Discovery along with his wife Betty Wyatt talked about this topic in the study.  The Wyatt's also started Dicipleship Focus in 1977.
Dicipleship Focus is a summer long dicipleship, servant leadership program where you go through the study Discovery and work at Silver Dollar City or Whitewater.  It is a college aged dicipleship program in Branson, Missouri.  The community along with my small group, cabin, and leaders changed my life forever.
Spiritual maturity in Christ is the ability to trust God more quickly each time with more situations.  I have been able to do this in the past year through my growth last summer at Dicipleship Focus and experiencing these kind of situations in the past year.  I have been trying to find a job for a while, God has helped me trust him with everything.  He has reminded me that I need to present everything to him even though sometimes I don't want to.    He has also given me the maturity to wait for his timing in life.
I have gained the ability to trust him in any and every situation lately though it is hard sometimes.  I just need to remind myself that he is in control of my life in whatever I am going through.
We have to be desperately dependent on God for everything in our life.  We can't produce anything worth spiritual maturity on our own in our life.
If the branch of a tree isn't producing any growth, then the tree will not grow.  If the branches are watered and nurtured, then the tree will and produce fruit and endless growth.  This is like us as Christians, if we don't depend on Jesus for our every need in our life.
Spiritual maturity is a long process but necessary to our growth as Christians.  It also reminds us of our need for Jesus in our life daily something we sometimes take for granted at times.  We have to be in tune with Jesus at all times, abiding in him with everything we have.