Maturity

The Christmas spirit grips St Mark's

3 December 2010.

Corinthians I 13:11 When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.

Last night a Christian youth group arrived to stay for the weekend and after they were allocated their rooms, one bright spark took the room key off the label, and locked five people in the room. The only key left on the label was the cupboard door, so when they tried to open the door with the cupboard key, it jammed in the lock and they were locked in the room. The result was that we all thought it was the correct door key, and I had to break the key to get it out. I then took the spare key and was able to open the door and release the five people from the room, at that moment I am handed the correct key to the door. Well you can imagine the speech and sermon this youth group got from me!

The fact is that youth will be youth and they are at the maturity of a teenager, which really means that they respond brainlessly to impulse of the moment. They still need to learn the discipline of self control and that their impulses if uncontrolled will lead to problems for themselves and others. Christian maturity is a process where through discipline we bring our thinking, our feelings and our actions under the Will of Christ, we think before we do and when we do something we have thought through the consequences. Maturity is something that never stops, it is a process that we gain and grow in through experience and sound discipline.

Be encouraged today to continue to mature in Christ.     

David

Point to ponder: Maturity is a growth process.

Question to consider: How mature do you respond to situations?

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