A Forgotten Key to Flourishing

Here’s a hard question to consider: Are you any better emotionally, spiritually, or relationally than you were five years ago?

An essential but often overlooked key to human flourishing is a developmental worldview. As a creation of God, you were made to grow and get better over time.  

Too many people in life suffer greatly when they wake up after twenty years of stagnation and realize that so much of their suffering in life is due to the reality that they aren’t a tad better emotionally, relationally, or spiritually because they settled for who they were. It’s the 36-year-old who is struggling mightily in his marriage and reached a ceiling professionally because he has the maturity, skills, and inner strength of a sixteen-year-old. .

When you dig into the life and teaching of Jesus, you find a challenge to grow, to evolve, to become more and more the man or woman God made you to be. And this is a great example of that developmental worldview.

Moses told God’s people that divorce was acceptable, not because it was good for the human person, but because it was what the people could handle. So when Jesus came around, He elevated the standard because it was time and the people were ready to grow.

So I ask you, today, in what area of your life do you know you need to grow, but you’re resistant to do so? In what way is Jesus challenging you to become stronger, better, more virtuous or capable so that you can grow more and more into the person God made you to be?