Growing Up Into the Head Christ

Growing Up

Into the Head Christ 

So how is the growing up process going?

How close are we getting to the Head, Jesus Christ?

Buying clothes for kids can be expensive,

Because they grow out of them so quickly.

It all happens so fast.

 One day I am holding a baby in my arms

and then holding their babies in my arms.

It seemed like yesterday when I sat on the

floor with my oldest granddaughter, Kylii.

She had not learned how to walk yet.

I don’t know how it happened, yet

it happened before my very eyes.

She has grown up.

 She is about to turn 16 and is now

taller than me and so beautiful.

For years she has planned to

go to Paris for her 16^th birthday.

Just the other day she told Sandy

and I her plans have changed.

She now wants to go on a mission

trip and work with children.

WOW!!! How they grow.

One fun thing kids like to do is

put on mom’s or dad’s shoes.

It is so hard for them to walk in,

 yet there is something inside of

them that wants to be grown up.

The Bible tells us we are to grow up.

It is not growing out of our clothes and into new ones.

It is not growing bigger feet to filling adult shoes.

It is more than a new mark on the

measuring stick against the wall.

The Bible tells us the goal of growing up

is to grow up into Christ who is the Head.

Many of us do not think our body fits our head.

Children like to think they are

smarter and bigger than they are.

As I get older, I think young thoughts

but my body cannot keep up.

When we think one thing and

do another there is a problem.

To grow up into the Head of Christ, we

must learn how to put on the mind of Christ.

We become the thoughts of Christ.

When my body is healthy and strong

it accomplishes the things I think about.

The Scriptures says…

“Instead, speaking the truth in love,

we will in all things grow up into him

who is the Head, that is, Christ.”

“In all things”

Maturity comes as we submit

everything to the thoughts of Christ.

We must remember that there are a

lot of ideas of what we should look like.

There are two things we get from the Head of Christ…

Love and Truth

There are many ideas of what

love and truth are in the world.

The sign of maturity is when

our lives speak truth in love.

So how is the growing up process

going in my life and yours?

How close are we getting to the Head, Jesus Christ.

Scripture Reading

Ephesians 4:14-19 NIV

14 Then we will no longer be infants, tossed back and forth by the waves, and blown here and there by every wind of teaching and by the cunning and craftiness of men in their deceitful scheming. 15 Instead, speaking the truth in love, we will in all things grow up into him who is the Head, that is, Christ. 16 From him the whole body, joined and held together by every supporting ligament, grows and builds itself up in love, as each part does its work.

17 So I tell you this, and insist on it in the Lord, that you must no longer live as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their thinking. 18 They are darkened in their understanding and separated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them due to the hardening of their hearts. 19 Having lost all sensitivity, they have given themselves over to sensuality so as to indulge in every kind of impurity, with a continual lust for more.