Opening Prayer: God of all that is good and just, grant us
courage to walk the path of faith with integrity and wisdom to rely on you to
guide our feet toward the level ground of vital Christian community. Test us where we think we are strong, and
strengthen us where we know we are wavering.
Above all, create in us pure hearts given fully to love of your
truth. Amen. (A Guide to Prayer for
All Who Walk with God by Rueben Job, Norman Shawchuck, and John Mogabgab)
Scripture: Ephesians 4:1-16
Journal: What words or images from today’s Scripture make
something come alive within you? What
disrupts or challenges you? What does
spiritual maturity look like to you?
What does it mean specifically for you to grow up in every way into
Christ?
Reflection:
“But grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our
Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.” Now this
text exactly expresses what we believe to be God’s will for us, and what we
also believe He has made it possible for us to experience. We accept, in their very fullest meaning, all
the commands and promises concerning our being no more children, and our
growing up into Christ in all things, until we come unto a perfect man, unto
the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ. We rejoice that we need not continue always
to be babes, needing milk, but that we may, by reason of use and development,
become such as have need of strong meat, skillful in the word of righteousness,
and able to discern both good and evil.
And none would grieve more than we at the thought of any finality in the
Christian life beyond which there could be no advance. (The Christian’s
Secret of a Happy Life by Hannah Whitall Smith)
Prayer
Closing Prayer: O God, you love us with a wild, passionate,
unfailing love, and you ask that we love you with the same. Give us the grace and the courage and the
strength to do just that. Through Jesus
Christ our Lord and Savior. Amen.
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