Spurgeon was a master illustrator. You can use this illustration in your own preaching to describe the importance of growing as a Christian.
If you go into a forest at a certain time of the year, you may see a great number of trees that have no leaves on them. How are you to know which are alive and which are not? Well, you would soon know if you could look at their roots.
If a tree has been growing, if its roots have taken hold of the soil, you may pull it, but you will not stir it. There it stands.
Similarly, growth in grace brings stability in grace.
You who have faith, ask God that you may have growing faith. A living faith is a growing faith, and a growing faith is a living faith. Pray, therefore, that you may “grow in grace” (2 Peter 3:18).
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