Welcome to the InTouch podcast with Charles Stanley for Tuesday, November 25th.

Instead of just looking for ways to flee your times of trial, let's learn how to respond in a better way.

Here's part two of when adversity strikes.

When a child is born, we naturally expect that child to grow.

And so we look forward to when the child is walking, when he's two or five, maybe 13, and then

19 and 21 and 25, and on me go.

Because that's the natural, normal thing to happen.

And when a child does not grow, we know we have a major problem.

Well, the same thing is true in the Christian life. When you trust the Lord Jesus Christ is your Savior,

the Bible says you're born again. So speaking of new birth, that is, then we are to grow in our relationship to Christ.

We're to grow in our knowledge and understanding of who he is and how he works in our life.

And we are to grow in understanding of the difficult times we have and how we are to respond.

So when you look in the scripture, for example, the Apostle Paul reminds us in this

fourth chapter of Ephesians in the 15th verse, he says, but speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up

in all aspects under him who is the head even Christ. And then, of course, Peter says a similar thing in Second Peter

and the last verse of this epistle. He says, but grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

To him be the glory both now and the day of eternity, amen. So you can go all through the

scriptures, and there are many verses in the Bible about growing. That is, we're not to be saved and just

stay there. If you think about how little you knew about God the day you were saved, and how little you knew about God? Month after you were

saved, or a year after you were saved. But when you begin to read the word of God, you begin to pray,

and you observe how God works in your life, how God is working in other people's lives, you are

growing in your Christian life.

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