Infants are cute. Toddlers are cute. But when a child doesn’t grow up that’s not cute, that’s tragic. Sadly, it is possible to grow old but not grow up. You know as well as I do that you can be mature in age, and yet spiritually and emotionally horribly immature. That’s not the way it was meant to be. We’re meant to grow up. We’re meant to mature on all fronts.

When it comes to spiritual growth or maturity there are certain inviolable principles. God is a god of order, and just like there are physical principles that govern the physical realm, there are spiritual principles that govern our spiritual lives. If we want to grow spiritually, which I sincerely hope we all do, we’ve got to cooperate with those principles. Today we're going to be looking at six of those principles.