Growth is always intentional, never by accident. Growth is always by purpose, not by chance. Growth is not an automatic thing but a necessary thing. To grow is to change, if you are changing for the better you are growing up regardless of the way you feel.
You don’t have to feel your way through growth, you can know your way in growth. It is very obvious and measurable according to Scripture. We grow by Following Jesus – Following Jesus simply means learning from Him, how to live my life and do the things that empowers me to live in the fruit of the Holy Spirit. That’s what we call discipleship and for us as Christ followers it is nonnegotiable! As Dietrich Bonhoeffer so eloquently put it: Christianity without discipleship is always Christianity without Christ.