Although I always have a wide range of things that I blog about, I've had in mind lately that I want to get back to blogging more about things such as being established in grace and growing in grace, which is really what I like writing about and discussing the most. A post from
Kent this morning stirs my heart along these lines. Being established in grace, and being able to have healthy and vibrant growth, depends on several things. Using his own garden as an example, as he often does, Kent talks about how the
environment plays such a huge role in all this.
He says, "Relationship with Father, Son, and Spirit is the environment we belong in and will thrive in. Outside of that environment the colors will be flat and the fruit will fade fast. Many times fruit will not even be produced. All the energy is spent on the scramble to survive."
See the whole post
here.
Heb 13:9 (NKJV)
Do not be carried about with various and strange doctrines. For
it is good that the heart be established by grace, not with foods [read: laws] which have not profited those who have been occupied with them.
2 Peter 3:18 (KJV)
But
grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To him be glory both now and for ever. Amen.
Col 2:6-7 (NKJV)
As you therefore have received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in Him,
rooted and built up in Him and established in the faith, as you have been taught,
abounding in it with thanksgiving.
Col 2:7 (NLT)
Let your roots grow down into him and draw up nourishment from him, so you will grow in faith, strong and vigorous in the truth you were taught. Let your lives
overflow with thanksgiving for all he has done.
Ps 92:12-15 (NKJV)
12 The righteous shall
flourish like a palm tree,
He shall
grow like a cedar in Lebanon.
13 Those who are
planted in the house of the LORD
Shall
flourish in the courts of our God.
14 They shall still
bear fruit in old age;
They shall be
fresh and flourishing,15 To declare that the LORD is upright;
He is my rock, and there is no unrighteousness in Him.
