😍Exceeding Growth🤗

Growth is the only evidence of life.

2 Thessalonians 1:3 (KJV) We are bound to thank God always for you, brethren, as it is meet, because that your faith groweth exceedingly, and the charity of every one of you all toward each other aboundeth;

As I read that verse the words groweth and exceedingly jumped out at me. Who doesn’t want growth and who does want what is growing to do so fast. That is what exceeding means “Going beyond; surpassing; excelling; outdoing. ” Think about what faith Noah had as he built a ship trusting in what God had said. Then when it was finished going inside with the door staying open for others to come aboard. This went on for 7 days at the end of 7 days God shut the door. What is sad are those that had the opportunity to come aboard and didn’t; no not one. When the time came for the water it was too late, those who were not on the ark perished. Oh you say that’s awful. It is, but did they not have the opportunity? Sure they did but let it pass by? The same is true today the doors of Heaven's opportunity are open and whosoever will can be saved but if they refuse what Christ has done, the same will happen to them; the door of opportunity will slam shut. 😳💥🚪Paul as he writes to the Thessalonians believers he is telling what he has noticed. He writes, your faith in Christ Jesus is growing; it is excelling beyond my  expectations. What is faith?  Hebrews 11:1 (KJV) Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.

Faith is something not seen. It’s easy to place confidence in something that is growing. In other words you see the end from the beginning. I trusted Christ a long time ago. I place my faith in what the Bible says. Now the Bible doesn’t really say much about heaven. The Bible doesn’t go into great detail about what it looks like. It does tell us about the things we can identify with. Like streets, walls, gates, water, gold, light, dimensions and a few other things we can understand. But Heaven has things we know nothing about, so it takes faith to believe in a place called Heaven. There should be no doubt that a man named Jesus Christ lived. But it is going to take faith to believe that Jesus Christ is the Savior of the world, your Savior. If one believes in those two things then they will want to know more and more about what they put their trust in.  That’s faith growing. Sad to say too many check the growth of their 401K more than the growth of their faith. Which one is growing exceedingly?