What Exactly Is The Secret?

Hello my Deep Thoughts readers and maybe I am the first to welcome you guys to another Monday.  This morning, all I kept thinking was that David Ross is in the semi-finals! I guess the Cubs nation, including myself and my husband, have been faithfully voting for him every week. I told my husband this morning David Ross might actually win this thing. He said he's 100% sure David Ross won't. I was thinking people were a hundred percent sure that the Cubs would not make it to the World Series last year. Need I say more of what happened? Honeys, with God, anything is possible! Anyways, let's dive into my writing for this Monday!

The title of my writing this morning is, "What exactly is the secret?" True, I could be meaning a lot of things. There could be a secret to many things. Maybe, I'm talking about my deodorant that is also labeled "Secret." I am not though. I'm talking about this subject to come.

First, I would like to start with this Bible verse.

"I am the vine. You are the branches. He who abides in me, and I in him bears much fruit, for without me you can do nothing." ~John 15:5

Really, I believe there is nothing you can do without God. However, today I am talking about spiritual growth. Friends, we cannot have spiritual growth without God helping us. Do I think you are a mature Christian? Who cares what I think right? I probably will start formulating in my head some thoughts about the subject. But, that is how far I should go. Meaning, I'm not going to gossip.

What about me? Do I consider myself a mature Christian? All I'm going to say is my faith is a lot different than it was 10 years ago. I'm also going to say that my walk with God can be a lot better. And, again, I am a work in progress.

The Bible verse that I shared earlier should definitely encourage us. Jesus is saying that if we abide in him we will bear much fruit. I totally hear that as you will grow spiritually. I cannot put a time line on when that growth will come and reach its maximum level. However all I am going to do is tell you that it can happen.

For me, it was a slow progression and I said everyone is not perfect so God is still working on people's heart. For someone else I know, I know this person is pretty much mature in the spiritual level (well more than I am,) This person encourages me and helps me to grow in my spiritual walk with God.

I want to end it with what Pastor Greg Laurie said.

If you want to grow spiritually, if you want to be able to resist temptation, if you want to live a life that is pleasing to God, then you must abide in Christ

Encouraging Sports quote of the day:

“I played as hard as I could. That’s all I wanted to be remembered for.” – Larry Bird

Philippians 3:12-14 ESV

Not that I have already obtained this or am already perfect, but I press on to make it my own, because Christ Jesus has made me his own. Brothers, I do not consider that I have made it my own. But one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.