everybody grows

Everybody grows.
You don’t need to choose it.
But you can choose, how you will grow.
You can grow to become an adult baby, or become an adult man.
In I Corinthians 13:11 Paul said that he had chosen
to put away childish things.
Unlike many people He was willing to change his thinking,
speaking and understanding.
Children are very self-centered in their thinking.
Everything spins around their needs and interests.
A child needs to be taught unselfishness.
It will not develop naturally in him.
Ignorance characterizes a child’s way of understanding.
Even though ignorance sometimes protects him from a lot of evil,
it is dangerous.
Voluntary ignorance doesn’t lead to good long term solutions.
It limits our lives more and more to ourselves.
Growing up means to come out from our own world.
Spiritual maturity leads us to put away all manipulation
and games that we have learned to play with our words.
It challenges us to “renounce the hidden things of shame” II Cor.4:2,
and encourages us to grow in our speaking.
Growth means sometimes pain, but that pain carries a promise
with it: He is changing me.