Growth part 2

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Do you remember measuring yourself as a kid against a door to see how much you had grown? I never seemed to grow fast enough… until you look at it over the course of a few years.

What if you could still measure your growth on the back of a door… but it was your growth as a person? Hmmmm maybe you can.

 

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part 2 to Three stages of growth. 

 

The second stage of growth. Good growth is slow growth. Our value is in accomplishments and not the process… - but the process is what brings growth, and when it is slow it has greater value!

 

The truth is when we are young a child can actually grow up to an inch over night… but we can’t expect that in every area of our life. 

 

Here is the key? slow growth stretches and builds our abilities to match our acquirement of accomplishments.

What do I mean? When I first sat down at a drum set I could play! I was rocking. I immediately got into a band and we started rocking out. 

I had a new accomplishment- I could play the drums, and it felt great.

However I had acquired very little stretching and abilities.

Later in college I realized how limited I was- so I had a great friend Larry Dutmer start to teach me simple rudiments. 

The flam, the paradiddle, 

The ghost note

the six stroke

The drag

Guess what? These took a lot of time… it was hard… but my abilities and skill grew greatly. No one would listen to my band and say “dude” your paradiddles rock… very little sense of value was given to me by others… but inside I felt great because I knew the time it took to get better. 

 

If you learned something fast, it probably was not that deep of a skill or it didn’t last. 

 

I don’t have to sell you on the culture we live in- we want everything NOW. But deep meaningful growth isn’t like that.

 

You want to heal the sick?

Hear from God?

Prophecy?

You want to be a great preacher?

You want great Christian influence?
The truth is it takes time and there is a learning curve. 

 

Moses was called the greatest leader in the bible (next to Jesus) 

Moses was in the desert for 40 years without the children of Israel… to grow! so that he could handle the next 40 years in the desert WITH the children of Israel.  

 

What makes an antique an antique? If I told you I make antiques… you would think I was nuts. It takes time, careful attention, protection of your piece to create great value… and that is the foundation of great growth. 

 

Sequoia National Park in California

Some of these trees are over 2,500 years old!

It is hard to believe these trees were once saplings… you could mow over them. 

These trees are over 300 feet tall

They have a girth of 80 feet (you can drive a car thru them)

But did you know they only grow 1.5 inches a year?

 

It's not about success. You can have instant success - It’s about growth! Are you growing and changing as an individual? Believe it or not you can have success and not grow. That is a sad and deceived person.