Spiritual Mastery #2: Growing in Faith

Four steps to grow from fear to faith.

What is spiritual mastery?

Therefore, leaving the discussion of the elementary principles of Christ, let us go on to perfection …Hebrews 6:1

Perfection = maturity. It’s not a self-righteous place where you think you are great and so amazingly righteous that God must just really love you more than others.

It means that you grow. You mature. You change. You get wiser as you go. You get better and more refined at it. You become a Jedi master at it. You begin to have mastery over yourself and become seasoned in the way. It doesn’t man you don’t make mistakes still- not that type of perfect. But your actions are maturing over time. Not stagnating, not going backwards.

Principle is to work on the inner man, not just the outer man:

25 “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you cleanse the outside of the cup and dish, but inside they are full of extortion and self-indulgence. 26 Blind Pharisee, first cleanse the inside of the cup and dish, that the outside of them may be clean also. Matthew 23:25–26

I wrote more about this in another article: Spiritual mastery— an overview

Spiritual Mastery Part 2: Growing in Faith

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