Strength to Strength: Meditations for Spiritual Direction

Those whose strength is in you,…
go from strength to strength,
till each appears before God in Zion.
– Psalm 84:5, 7

Too many Christians are more resigned than need be to a stumbling
approach to spiritual growth. We presume that progress towards
maturity happens by a “two steps forward, one step back” process. But the
Biblical model doesn’t quite support this view. Instead Scripture speaks of
“unveiled faces” that are being transformed “from glory to glory.” It imagines
us as trees planted ...