Humble spiritual growth. Do you want it?

2 Peter 3:18  "But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be the glory both now and to the day of eternity. Amen."

Throughout scripture we are commanded to grow and yet 
we are told that God has provided everything we need to grow.  
Pastor Duke challenged us this past week (www.emmanuelbaptist.com/messages/i.really.want.to.grow.01.13.13.mp3).
We were challenged to examine our lives and grow!

One of the specific challenges was to work through some spiritual growth questions

www.emmanuelbaptist.com/i.really.want.to.grow.pdf

While working through the questions and talking with others, I realized humility plays such an important role in our spiritual growth.

The following quotes from Stuart Scott's booklet From Pride to Humility need to be considered when it comes to spiritual growth and humility...

"We cannot come to God without humility"

"We cannot love God supremely without humility"

"We cannot be an effective witness for Christ without humility."

"We cannot love and serve others without humility."

"We cannot lead in a godly way without humility."

"We cannot communicate properly without humility."

"We cannot resolve conflict without humility."

"We cannot deal with the sin of others rightly without humility."

"We especially cannot resist sin without humility."

"We never find the scripture saying 'come on now, you're thinking too poorly of yourself' or 'what you need is to consider yourself more.'"

"Scripture tells us to stop focusing on ourselves or on what we want."

Tomorrow morning's post will have a list of manifestations of pride to use for personal evaluation.

Tomorrow evening's post will have a list of manifestations of humility to also use.