Seeking Jesus First Feb. 24, 2025

Spiritual Maturity - Part Six

Spiritual Maturity comes through the right kind of experience. When we faithfully apply ourselves to what is good, we get stronger.

Let’s consider a game analogy about leveling up. In a video game, a player receives a starting level number of ‘points’ to place in different ‘attributes’ as they build their character for the game. The person applies the points to things like, ‘strength’, ‘agility’, ‘perception’, ‘intelligence’, ‘wisdom’, ‘charisma’, ‘luck’, etc.. If they lonely get ten points to start with, they are not very powerful overall at first. They have to spend time building these areas through experience. As they reach new levels, they are able to put more points in the different attributes. They also acquire skills as they go the tallow them to do special things within the game making their character more powerful.

One of the reason’s people play these game is because of the sense for adventure and the clearly defined rules that allow them to level up and be more successful as they keep playing. They gain experience points and apply those points to accomplish things in a certain way. They can play the game again and build the character entirely differently making it a completely new game for that new character. They may play through the game as a tank warrior with a sword one time and the next time as a ranged warrior with a bow and arrow.

In real life, there doesn’t seem to one this much freedom and control over how we build our life and face our adventure. However, one thing is true, we level up through ‘experience points’. We get an education in order to do the work we choose to do. We exercise to stay in shape and get stronger or faster. We build a garden and learn to grow our own food. The more experience we gain in any area or expertise, the more success we can have doing it.

With that in mind, what we apply ourselves to faithfully improve will improve. One expert said that if we practice anything for 20 minutes a day for a year, we will be more adept at that thing than 98% of the population. We level up as we faithfully apply ourselves to what is good. Spiritual maturity is the result of faithfully applying our selves to The Word of God and to our relationship with God through Holy Spirit.

Keep His word in our mouth, meditate on it day and night so that we observe and do it, and we will make our own way prosperous and have good success. Add to that the fact that God has given us His Holy Spirit to reside in us and be with us and we have the ability to level up and become mature spiritual giants in the image of our Father in Heaven. “and have put on the new man who is renewed in knowledge according to the image of Him who created him,” (Colossians 3:10, NKJV)