Growing Backward?

A key characteristic of all living things is that they are dynamic. Living things move, grow and change. Sometimes the changes are dramatic and other times, they are almost not noticeable.

Being a Christian single should also be a dynamic process. We should constantly be in a process of becoming more like what God has envisioned for us to become. Also, we should be positive catalysts for helping others to grow toward their potential. If we are not growing in God’s direction; then we will be “growing” in the direction of the evil forces of this world.

If you still are as likely to cuss someone out as you were before you were saved, you are growing backwards. If you still cannot mention your ex-boyfriend or ex-girlfriend’s name without getting angry, then you are growing backwards. If you just as easily jump in bed with Mr. or Miss Look So Good now as you did before God turned your life around, then you are growing backward. If you are as depressed, loneliness and sexually frustrated as you were earlier in your Christian singleness journey, then you are growing backward.

Take it from me; you are heading towards some pretty bad times if you continue to go in the opposite direction of God’s way. No boogie wonderland for you!! You think you are lonely or depressed or sexually frustrated now? Keep on growing backwards and you will really find how desperate times will become.

Isn’t there a song that says, “He picked me up and turned me around. He planted my feet on solid ground”? Well, God has already picked us up. He has already turned us around. But somewhere we managed to “re-turn” our selves around in the opposite direction. We started off with God as the source of our joy and the reservoir of our deliverance. But we have managed to snatch pain and a sense of emptiness from the joys of spiritual victory.

My prayer for you today is that you will keep your big feet where God has planted them! Growing toward God’s way is the way of joy, hope, optimism and peace. We all have found out the hard way that the opposite direction is nothing but a fast track to pure doom and gloom. In the words of another Earth, Wind & Fire song, I pray that you will keep your head to the sky.