The You're going to do you.

Do you do you do you do you do

do you do If you can plant a seed and you take care of it you expect to see steady growth.

There are factors that can stunt its development and others that stimulate or

sustain the growth. Today, on Truth for Life, we'll see how the same holds true when it comes

to our spiritual growth.

Alistairbegg is teaching from the opening verses in 1st Peter, Chapter 2.

I think every mother who's here this morning knows exactly where to go in order to be able to

provide any onlookers with a quite glittering array of baby pictures.

Some of those great historical memories of how we used to look when we were we.

And people love to look at them and say my my look at all

that's happened through the years and there is great joy for a mother to do that and

those of you who are teenagers need to realize what it is for your

mother you see, who still has that baby picture of you in her wallet to suddenly look

across to the driver's side of the car and didn't trust her life to you.

She knows that you have grown up, she knows that you're now age enough to do this,

but somehow she just can't imagine that it happened so quickly and that it brought such

challenges along the journey. Now if that's true in a physical realm concerning growing up, then it's certainly true spiritually.

And as those who are the fathers in the faith, the apostles write their letters,

you sense from them this great fatherly concern for those who were their spiritual children.

When Paul writes to Timothy as his child in the faith, he says he is so glad to see him going on to maturity, the faith which was there in the early days of his life

is now blossoming to usefulness.

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