What are your spiritual goals? Where do you see yourself as a Christian in the next five years? Have you ever asked such questions about your relationship with God and Christ? It is common for people to ask such questions about their physical welfare. Job interviewers include them when evaluating potential employees. Why? No one wants a stagnant employee. They want people who will challenge themselves and grow so that their company will improve at what it does. Why shouldn’t these thoughts apply to the church?
A stagnant church is a church that is ready to die. Do we want that? What is necessary so that we will not fade into obscurity? We must challenge ourselves to be better Christians. Are we learning more about the Bible? Is our prayer life maturing? Are our personal relationships with others improving? Are our families developing in ways that glorify God? Peter said, “but grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To Him be the glory both now and forever. Amen” (2 Peter 3:18).
We must not be satisfied with the status quo. We must always try to improve who we are in Christ. God wants us to conform to the identity of His Son, Jesus (Romans 8:29). Jesus is the model. Paul wrote, “Not that I have already attained, or am already perfected; but I press on, that I may lay hold of that for which Christ Jesus has also laid hold of me. Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended; but one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead, I press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus” (Philippians 3:12-14). So, this week, spend some time evaluating your faith and ask yourself, “What are my Goals?”