Flourishing in the Eyes of the Father

We often struggle in our spiritual journeys because we lack the critical frameworks with which to examine our lives. The parable of the sower teaches us three lenses we can use to examine our lives: the spiritual lens, the external or worldly lens, and the internal or character lens. Unless we cultivate spiritual wisdom and nurture the seeds God plants within us, we remain in a spiritual fog and either analyze our lives through the wrong lens, or fail to analyze our lives at all. Spiritual growth is not the result of chance, but instead is the fruit of being deliberate in our walk with God. It is when we put in the hard work to follow God that we break free from spiritual fear, grow in spiritual confidence, and flourish as the versions of ourselves God has destined for us to become.