In everyday life, when we see a person who does not grow at the rate expected as normal, or in planst and animal which do not seem to increase in size as time passes, we usually say that they are suffering from stunted growth. Or we can probably call it arrested development. The same is also true in our spiritual lives, our emotional and intellectual lives. If we do not grow and develop at the rate expected, we could become stunted spiritually, emotionally or in good character. In the letter to the Hebrews in chapter 5, God had the same issue with the Hebrews. There the bible says “I have a lot more to say about this, but it is hard to get it across to you since you've picked up this bad habit of not listening. By this time you ought to be teachers yourselves, yet here I find you need someone to sit down with you and go over the basics on God again, starting from square one — baby's milk, when you should have been on solid food long ago! Milk is for beginners, inexperienced in God's ways; solid food is for the mature, who have some practice in telling right from wrong.
God loves you, but He wants you to grow; He wants you to become better and better every single day. He has also put the grace and strength at your disposal, and one person who understands the availability of God’s grace to do anything is Apostle Paul. Little wonder in Philippians 4:13 he said “I can do everything through him who gives me strength. So where do you know you need to grow up; it could be in the way you follow God, it could be in the way you relate with other people, the way you handle finances, or in the way you lead or provide for your family? So, today I urge you set your heart on growing up, and you will find that the grace of God is sufficient every time.
(Source: Ben & Kay Akhigbe II)
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