Unto Full Stature
Unto Full Stature (author DeVern Fromke)
Review by: Colleen Moran
Introduction and Preface:
This book is about moving into the full expression of what our Father intends for us, developing character, spiritual stature and likeness to Him, now. He desires us is to be a vast family of mature sons who reflect His nature, will and word in everything we do.
A key component is our interdependence, designed to help us press each other into full stature. Like the tossing of unique stones in a lapidary tumbler, we rub off the rough places and help polish one another into a greater reflection of Father. There is no such thing as individual full stature. We’re fit together to collectively reflect His nature; we need each other!
We all start as spiritual children and then mature as we move into His perspective, purposes and vision. To do that, it’s a daily struggle with our flesh nature, learning to express His ways and plans, not our own. We are to be sons and warriors, living His Kingdom principles as reality. Unfortunately, it sometimes takes us years or all of our lives, to grow out of being needy children or busy adults in religious activity. Doing His will as mature sons in intimate relationship with Him, dedicated to His purposes, strong in unity and in oneness, is what God desires.
We were created and seated with Him before the foundations, then sent to be participators in the GRAND THEME of the universe. So, what does all that look like down here, as it plays itself out? Sometimes not too good. Under fire and pressure, the child in us sometimes can’t take it and seeks to run away. However, it is in those crisis events that we can find our greatest benefit and growth.
Chapter 1:
To grow into Full Stature, we must adjust ourselves to not move out of our limited human situations and time perspective, but instead from His eternal timelessness, the bigger picture or “background” as the author calls it. Without the bigger picture, how can we know the true meaning of the parts or how they fit together? We “human-divine sons” were in His heart and plans from the beginning; our full stature development is an integral part of the master plan.
In God’s grand scheme of time, the redemptive cross and escaping of sin is just one aspect, not the emphasis. Too many people see the cross as the way of escape rather than seeing it as the way to fulfillment. The cross, at first, was God poured out. But when applied to our inward growth, it means man “poured out.”
In daily life, we need to distinguish between the urgency of crises and the urgency of the opportunities therein, to better recognize and embrace the fulfillment of God’s ultimate plan. As His sons, He wants us to be able to see, know and understand what He is doing in our lives and in the world. As the author put it, “Once my inner being was corrected, my inner eyes could see what He sees;” the pure in heart will see.....
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