Thrive.... Casting Crowns

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQ71RWJhS_M

 

“We were made for so more than ordinary lives. It’s time for us to do more than just survive”…. Get the full nourishment needed to make Jesus known. Thrive, to know Him and to make Him Known.

 

Mark Hall, the lead singer from Casting Crowns, gave a great analogy on this song and their “Thrive five” sign they make with their hands when they’re singing it. It’s very catchy. I am now teaching it to my grandson Gavin. It is a high five with one hand, five fingers up, then with your other hand touching your other one at the wrist, your five fingers are pointing down. So when they sing, “Just to know You” they point their five fingers down. Then when they sing, “To make You known” attach at the wrist, with your five fingers up.

 

He explained it like their picture I attached. A tree thrives for nourishment from its roots (five fingers down.)Then the tree flourishes at the top from the food it receives (five fingers up.)

 

I love the definition I found. “If something is thriving, it’s doing well—so well you could call it blooming vigorously.” WOW, I want to be like that for Jesus! The bible has a great verse for explaining it as well. Hebrews 5: 13-14, “For everyone who partakes only of milk is unskilled in the word of righteousness, for he is a babe. But solid food belongs to those who are full of age, that is, have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil.”

 

How do you learn more of something, so you can make what you learned be known to others?

You have to thirst, thrive, for more of God. Hungry, digging deep in the word to keep growing. That is how we learn our Fathers heart.

 

Like our children go from milk to solid food to grow, God wants us to grow spiritually. Feeding on spiritual milk will not help us to grow to full bloom. So “THRIVE” for, and enjoy the taste of solid food.

 

 

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Kim