Contrary to the belief of many, age and growth do not automatically carry with them maturity; and may I add, neither does change. The former is illustrated in a child’s body that grows and ages into that of an adult, while the brain remains adolescent. Admittedly, there’s growing and aging, but certainly no maturing! As to change, well, I may change something greater for that which is lesser, such as a diamond for a marble. In most, if not in all such cases, we would classify this change as a result of immaturity.
We have a generation of professing Christians who believe white-washing, sugar-coating, and accepting fornication, drunkenness, drug taking, and cultic life-styles as the norm, are growth; but this is a twisted and deformed type of growth, without mature thought. Going backward only advances one to the Stone Age. True Spiritual maturity discerns between good and evil. And the authority in distinguishing the two is the Word of God (Heb.5:13-14). To condone wrong is to categorize you with the immature.
The late great English preacher, C.H. Spurgeon, told a story of an Irishman who, when asked how he got on at the meeting of a small separatist church said, “Oh, it was lovely; none of us knew anything, and we all taught each other.” Enough said! `
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