For anyone who has faith, spiritual growth is often a goal. How do you grow with your spirituality? The answers are easier than you might think.
Consider these tips to continue your personal growth through faith.
Stay Open-Minded
When you close your mind off to your faith, you halt all of the progress. You need to be open to new ideas, to be provide yourself with a clear path forward. Consider groups like The Way International to open the door for you to learn new things. Religion, faith, and spirituality are not about remaining stagnant. The point is to grow as a person. You should open yourself up to teachings and to new interpretations. Do not be afraid to question and explore your faith. When you close yourself off to your beliefs for any reason, you can lose your sense of self. You may feel like you aren’t growing with your religion or faith. This is not the fault of the spirituality but instead a problem with closing your mind off.
Balance Your Life
If your life is unbalanced, you might find progress in all areas to be difficult. For instance, if you are never pushing yourself to learn, then you may find that you don’t progress. Likewise, if all you focus on is your work, then you are putting no effort towards your spiritual growth. If you have balance in your life, then you won’t burn out as quickly. You can focus on growing in your faith, without worrying that you are ignoring other areas of your life. In fact, your faith should be a foundation for all areas of your life.
Keep Learning
Along with staying open-minded, you want to keep learning about your faith. This can be as simple as attending studies or meeting with people to talk about your faith. There is always something to learn. The more time you spend learning, the more knowledge you will gain. It doesn’t matter if you’re seeking personal growth or spiritual growth. The second that you stop learning, you cannot grow more. If you want to continue down the path of growth, then you need to learn new things. Until then, do things to help maintain balance.
Don’t Try Too Hard
Do not focus all your time and effort into growing in your faith. It should come naturally. Your beliefs should shape your life and you should not focus on your goals. Instead, keep in mind that your faith is what teaches you and you will progress with your faith as long as you are open to progression. While you can make goals to treat people the way that your faith teaches or to live in a way that your faith gives you examples of, you should never stress yourself.
Don’t be afraid of spiritual growth. No matter how far along on your faith-based journey that you are, there is always room to grow. When you focus on opening yourself up for growth and to learn new things, you can continue your spiritual journey.
I don’t believe there’s such a thing as ‘trying too hard’. Paul described it as a race – that’s all-in, full-out, giving it all.
In my experience, anything that requires thought sends people running. They want growth without effort. I write out what I learn constantly… no one reads, anymore. It takes too much time/consideration. It’s too ‘deep’. Deep is scary. Nice and shallow is warmer, lighter, easier. Safer.