p. 293 | ARE YOU GROWING?

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jul 1, 1880

ARE YOU GROWING?

IN body, mind, spirit, Jesus grew. He was fitting to be the great teacher. He was a perfect and divine being, yet even he must needs grow. Surely, then, we need to grow. We have not reached the stature of a perfect man in Jesus Christ. He sought help from men and God. The teacher is to be a growing, fruitful plant. Soil and sun give growth. Some teachers take nothing from soil, but trust to sun alone. They pray, but do not study. Others would get all from the soil but none from the sun. They study but do not pray. Both wrong. Christ is the example. He found the teachers' meeting in the temple a necessity. Can we do without it? He wondered that his parents were surprised to find him there. Should we not wonder when the teacher is not there? The teacher who neglects either teachers' meetings or his closet is a marvel. He proclaims that he needs not grow, or else he declares that he can grow without the aids which his Divine Master needed. Now, are you growing? — Christian Union