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“But grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ” (2 Peter 3:18).
Several days ago, my wife was standing in an airport, waiting to pick up some people who had come to visit us. She saw an advertisement on the wall for the Subaru car company, showing a four-wheel drive vehicle driving through a river. The slogan underneath was “Grow through what you go through.” They meant that it would be an enriching experience to drive a Subaru, for you would be able to go through rough places where other cars could not go. Of course, their main motive was to sell more Subaru cars, but I thought it was a good slogan for a Christian too.
The Lord does not want us merely to go through various experiences in our Christian life, but wants us to grow spiritually through them all. He allows all the things that we go through, and allows them for our good. We can learn lessons from these experiences that will last forever. Most important, we can learn more of God’s grace, and how much He has done for us. Let us learn to value the experiences God puts us through, and ask the Lord what we are to learn from them.
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