Being a tall person, when I was growing up I experienced a lot of growing pains in my legs as I grew taller and taller. I remember the agony of what felt like being in a taffy stretcher. It hurt so bad especially that one summer when I was fourteen and I grew five inches!
I am somewhere between 5' 10" and 5' 11" and I love being tall. It is how God designed me to be. I would never have reached this height if it weren't for those seemingly endless nights of torture when I was younger. Height is a mere aesthetic and rather trivial when you consider the other areas of growth that people grow through during the maturation process. However, they are not any less painful, if anything it is more painful to learn lessons about pride, anger, jealousy, selfishness, self-control and so many other things we called to model after Christ.
In Colossians 3 it tells us to take off things from the old and put on the new. So many times I have simply tried to just pile on the Godly virtues as if I were bundling up to go out in the cold. But that is not how it is supposed to be. Just like you have to take off your clothes to get in the shower and clean your body, we have to be vulnerable and naked before God so that he can clothe us in the glorifying riches that can only come from Him in the first place. In John 3:20 it talks about how fearful most people are to come into the light of God's presence.
But I challenge you to join me as I embark on a recharged journey seeking after God and the things He has in store. It's scary and it's going to hurt but in the end all of the waiting and the trials are going to be worth it because of the promises God has made all over His Word.
If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you- you of little faith? Matthew 6:30
