June 26
Not to progress is to regress
“The righteous also shall hold on his way, and he that hath clean hands shall be stronger and stronger” (Job 17:9).
“We beseech you . . . that ye increase more and more” (1 Thess. 4:10).
The Christian cannot cease to grow without danger. To keep any religion at all we must grow in grace.
The Christian who does not grow becomes peevish, fretful and unhappy, like a child that has ceased to grow. Is this not the reason why so many professors of religion have become weak, uneasy and dissatisfied? In nature, when growth ceases, decay and death are at hand. When a child ceases to grow, it starts for the grave. Not to progress is to regress, and regression is destruction.
—J. A. Wood.
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