Commitment to growth

I gave up my life for you, I thought of you my friend, and gifted you my Spirit.

My body was bruised and in pain, my spirit broken. Oh sinner don’t you see I love  you.

I revealed the purpose of life; I invited you to partner alongside me, in bringing hope and change to this world.

I taught you to fight evil with love, won’t you do the same just as I have.

Now the eleven disciples went to Galilee, to the mountain to which Jesus had directed them. And when they saw him they worshiped him, but some doubted. And Jesus came and said to them, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.” Matthew 28

The first stanza is part of a hymn (Ndakuncamela ubomi bam).

Happy new year fellow gospel carriers.

I have been struggling since last year with diligence and keeping myself in the Word in my personal life and the blog. This hymn has been preaching to my conscious.  In our family in Christ we have been  talking about growth being something we intentionally pursue.

Our challenge fellow sojourners is to commit this year and every other year to growth in our journey to being Christlike. I would encourage each and everyone of us to join a community of believers; study the Word beyond this blog and serving in the community we are part of.

We shall start our journey to letters to the Corinthians.

I give thanks to my God always for you because of the grace of God that was given you in Christ Jesus, that in every way you were enriched in him in all speech and all knowledge— even as the testimony about Christ was confirmed among you— so that you are not lacking in any gift, as you wait for the revealing of our Lord Jesus Christ, who will sustain you to the end, guiltless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ. God is faithful, by whom you were called into the fellowship of his Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.