Understanding Christian Growth, Part 2 (TMF:2789)
Thursday, January 15, 2026
Peace to Live By: Understanding Christian Growth, Part 2 (TMF:2789) - Daniel Litton
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Students learn knowledge in school by going through the grades. In first grade, they are taught this or that, and then in third grade something else, and then in fifth grade still something else. It all builds upon what was previously learned. Generally grade-schoolers aren’t put through suffering to get them to grow, but they are taught. Now, they may see it as suffering, but hopefully not. In the same way, God doesn’t want and desire for us to suffer. He will use suffering if it comes along to cause us to grow, but he doesn’t want it for us. Sometimes we may willingly put ourselves through unpleasant things in order to grow, but generally learning knowledge doesn’t include a whole lot of suffering, at least physically. Peter has said in his epistle, “Like newborn infants, long for the pure spiritual milk, that by it you may grow up into salvation—if indeed you have tasted that the Lord is good” (1 Peter, 2:2, ESV). Therefore, when we become saved, we are like newborn infants in regard to the understanding of spiritual things.