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This morning as I read my devotional it struck me that the life of Peter mirrors our own lives in many powerful ways. We are humble before Jesus, yet we boldly speak for Him, we often speak before listening, we have glimpses of strong faith that often fade as we sink while walking on water, and we wrestle with our sinfulness, but there is no similarity more blatantly obvious, nor spiritually disappointing, than when Peter denied Jesus… and when we recognize ourselves in him as he does so. Like Peter we answer the call of Jesus as infants and must mature in our belief and faith. 

Are we maturing each day in our faith, or are we remaining babies in Christ? Paul found that many of the Corinthians had not advanced in their faith, and I look at the church today, and see that we have fallen into that same trap in our modern faith... we don’t open ourselves up fully to the Spirit. We remain convinced that we can fix our own problems without leaning on God, and thus we are trapped in a form of spiritual infancy.