While searching through a box of items I found in the basement the other day I pulled out a Sesame Street Growth Chart. This fabric chart hung on the wall when I my children were little. You can still see the marks where I posted and dated the girls height as they grew from toddlers to young adults.

I attached it to a wall a stood my grandson against it where I marked his height for the first time. I showed him the marks where his mother stood when she was a young girl.

Memories washed over me of the little children, of their growing up. They are both mothers now. This is an outward appearance of their physical growth.

What about spiritual growth? There is not a  chart you can hang on your wall to which you make tick marks every year.

How “grown up” are you in your walk with Christ. Are you like a baby drinking only milk and unable to eat solid food? Are you a toddler learning to eat on your own? Or have you matured, partaking of solid food, able to recognize what is right and what is wrong? (see Hebrews 5:12-14)

How do you seek God in your life? Do you listen to others and accept their word as God’s Word? Or do follow up by reading scripture quoted to see if that is truly what God has said.  I am reminded the movie “The Fiddler on the Roof”. I really enjoy that movie. Throughout the movie, Tev loves to tell those around him what “the Good Book says”. Unfortunately his interpretation is not necessarily an accurate interpretation.

I encourage you, this month, to begin “feeding on God’s Word” (Matt 4:4). Are you at the same place in your spiritual walk you were years ago? Is it time to grow up? Take hold of God’s promises and keep them in your heart. Stand up against the chart. How have you grown?