What are you growing?

Hey there! What are you doing to cultivate your relationship with God? What do I mean by cultivate? Here's the dictionary definition.

Cultivate

: to foster the growth of cultivate vegetables (cultivate coffee)

: to improve by labor, care, or study : cultivate the mind

 

God loves us. He'd do anything to be with us, in fact he already did do everything by coming to earth for us, showing us how to live, and then dying to bear the punishment for our sins. He did it all. God is not some far off king on a throne, watching from a distance as we live our lives. He wants to be right here with us now, as Jesus was with his best friends. God can do that, be with us and be close to us all the time, through the work of the Holy Spirit who enables God to live in us.

 

But, here's the big but, it's our job to cultivate the relationship with God. If our thoughts and heart are totally consumed by other things, even other good things, we push God out. There's no room for him. And so we need to make an effort to get to know God, through prayer and studying the Bible, and learning to listen to the Holy Spirit.

This app can help you A LOT. It's a daily devotional that was created just for teens by a youth pastor in the Vineyard denomination. You can download it for free on either iTunes or Google Play. Follow the links to learn more! Happy cultivating :)