Spiritual growth was never supposed to look like a lightning strike. It looks like a ladder, and you climb it one unglamorous rung at a time. “But also for this very reason, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue, to virtue knowledge, to knowledge self-control, to self-control perseverance, to perseverance godliness, to godliness brotherly kindness, and to brotherly kindness love” (2 Peter 1:5-7, NKJV).