The Day that Changed Your Life Forever

Secular personal development is about developing personal strengths, and Christian personal development is about diminishing them. If that sounds opposite, it is. Not to say that secular personal development is a bad thing, because it isn’t. It’s just not the right fit for the believer in Christ. Certainly, it is good for anyone to strive to be a better person regardless of his or her faith? The difference between the two approaches is stated in John 3:30: Christian personal development’s distinguishing mark, “He must increase, but I must decrease.”

The Bible outlines God’s plan of personal development: “Yet you, LORD, are our Father. We are the clay, you are the potter; we are all the work of your hand,” Isaiah 64:8. Although God is the potter, we must supply the material. The way we do that is submitting to Him each area of development. For example, we are like a house with many rooms. Each of those rooms need a makeover, so when we learn what each room needs, we submit it to God. For instance, we realize there is a room for communication and we need a makeover in that area because we need to be a better communicator. First we learn what it takes to be a good communicator and then submit all that material to God that He might empowers us to do those things we have learned. Becoming what God created us to be is the object of Christian personal development, and that requires us cooperating with God to make it happen. We submit and He empowers. Our responsibility is learning what to submit. You may wonder what the difference is if we learn what it takes, why not just do it? That is self improvement which is inferior to the work God does. That is why we must decrease while God’s influence within us increases.

The day that changes your life forever is when you realize that all you desire and want to be is in God’s hands and not yours. The object is placing our faith and trust in Him. If you have never done that, click HERE to learn how to start.