{"id":67047,"date":"2023-10-15T22:24:14","date_gmt":"2023-10-15T22:24:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=67047"},"modified":"2023-10-15T22:24:14","modified_gmt":"2023-10-15T22:24:14","slug":"grow-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=67047","title":{"rendered":"Grow up!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nabim (not his real name) had a spat with his father over the Father&#8217;s demand that he leaves his game console to go serve guests. The father&#8217;s response to all that was, Nabim grow up&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Very often we believers find ourselves in the Nabim space. <\/strong>We act like children when the Lord is expecting adult behaviour. How is that?<\/p>\n<p><strong>We get stuck in the elementary school of faith,<\/strong>\u00a0getting absorbed or even confused about such basic issues as repentance from sin, baptisms, faith in God, etal_ (Hebrews 6:1-3)<\/p>\n<p><strong>We keep craving the milk in the word<\/strong> when we should be tackling meat and bones. (Heb.5:12-14; 1Cor. 3:21)<\/p>\n<p><strong>We get obsessed with our &#8216;kingdom rights, privileges and entitlements&#8217;<\/strong>\u00a0while ignoring our kingdom responsibilities._ _(Mt. 28:19; 2Tim.2 :2)_<\/p>\n<p>When your Christian life is built entirely around your needs and fears, rather than God&#8217;s vision and purpose, you are but a child. <strong>It&#8217;s time to grow up!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a9 Buti Sam KPUTU_<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nabim (not his real name) had a spat with his father over the Father&#8217;s demand that he leaves his game console to go serve guests. The father&#8217;s response to all that was, Nabim grow up&#8221; Very often we believers find ourselves in the Nabim space. We act like children when the Lord is expecting adult [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5772],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-faith"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67047\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}