We’ll begin our week with 1 Peter 2:1-3 … So get rid of all evil behavior. Be done with all deceit, hypocrisy, jealousy, and all unkind speech. Like newborn babies, you must crave pure spiritual milk so that you will grow into a full experience of salvation. Cry out for this nourishment, now that you have had a taste of the Lord’s kindness. (NLT) One of the first signs of personal growth and spiritual maturity is that our desires start to change. Rarely will that take place overnight, but over time. To be blunt, the cravings for sin just start to decrease and the desire for the good, right, and pure things of God slowly overcome old habits and patterns and the replacement process begins. This can be seen in where we no longer wish to go, to people we no longer choose to be around, or things we lose the desire to do.

Listen now to this same passage in The Message Bible … So clean house! Make a clean sweep of malice and pretense, envy and hurtful talk. You’ve had a taste of God. Now, like infants at the breast, drink deep of God’s pure kindness. Then you’ll grow up mature and whole in God.

Take a moment to consider where you know your desires have changed. Relationships, friendships, places, activities? Sometimes we have to stop and realize that we have allowed something to fall away, recognize anything that we have let go of, or something new we have started, as a positive step of growth in our lives.

If you realize or recognize a change, celebrate that growth. A win is a win.

Let’s pray together: “Heavenly Father, thank You for how You have changed my mind, my heart, my attitude, my taste for things of the past, and my desire for the things of You. Help me to keep growing, one day, one step at a time. As above, so below.”