one of my new year resolutions is to grow up and be more mature. i shared this with some friends and i don't think they completely understood what i was saying. but that's ok because i think i confused myself, too. my impression of growing up and becoming more mature was basically to start acting like an adult, to be able to face reality without letting it take control of me and my thoughts, and basically, to think less childlike. but today, Pastor Joe's sermon taught me that my idea of maturity is so flawed and i've completely taken God out of the picture without realizing it. oh shnaps!
maturity. i want to be mature in the sense that i want to grasp the completeness of God. i want to be so faithful to Him that nothing, none of the earthly things of this world, will drift me away from Him. and finally, i want to be mature in the sense that my words, my thoughts, my actions will all be said and done through His love and His wisdom.
It was he who gave some to be apostles, some to be prophets, some to be evangelists, and some to be pastors and teachers, to prepare God's people for works of service, so that the body of Christ may be built up until we all reach unity in the faith and in the knowledge of the Son of God and become mature, attaining to the whole measure of the fullness of Christ. Then we will no longer be infants, tossed back and forth by the waves, and blown here and there by every wind of teaching and by the cunning and craftiness of men in their deceitful scheming. Instead, speaking the truth in love, we will in all things grow up into him who is the Head, that is, Christ. -- Ephesians 4:11-15
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