BRIDGE JUMPING
How can the older teach the younger, if the older folks don't begin to take some steps towards maturity themselves? Some people are in a forty or fifty year old body, but their maturity level is not a day past ten years old. Let's face it.
Immaturity strikes again, day after day, all over the place. Why? Because we refuse to face the issues, we avoid the facts and conflicts, and this has been the habit since our youth. It's what we are used to so we just keep on going in that same mentality, immaturity.
Maturity comes when we make ourselves vulnerable, when we are willing to pass through whatever might be coming. It is good to face difficulty and conflict. Overcome the obstacles and deal with the problems and hardships of everyday real life. Then you will begin to get a taste of what mature adults must grow through. A part of growing up is taking responsibility, wrestling through the good and bad, and patiently enduring and attempting to comprehend people, personalities, situations and circumstances that may or may not be comfortable. Problem solving and in general keeping a willingness to learn or be taught what you may not know can positively result in growing up.
So what have you learned that is worth passing along to others?
The elders which are among you I exhort, who am also an elder, and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, and also a partaker of the glory that shall be revealed:
Feed the flock of God which is among you, taking the oversight thereof, not by constraint, but willingly; not for filthy lucre, but of a ready mind;
Neither as being lords over God's heritage, but being examples to the flock.
And when the chief Shepherd shall appear, ye shall receive a crown of glory that fadeth not away.
Likewise, ye younger, submit yourselves unto the elder. Yea, all of you be subject one to another, and be clothed with humility: for God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the humble.
Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time:
Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you.
Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:
Whom resist stedfast in the faith, knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren that are in the world.
But the God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that ye have suffered a while, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you.
To him be glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.
I Peter 5:1-11
Immaturity strikes again, day after day, all over the place. Why? Because we refuse to face the issues, we avoid the facts and conflicts, and this has been the habit since our youth. It's what we are used to so we just keep on going in that same mentality, immaturity.
Maturity comes when we make ourselves vulnerable, when we are willing to pass through whatever might be coming. It is good to face difficulty and conflict. Overcome the obstacles and deal with the problems and hardships of everyday real life. Then you will begin to get a taste of what mature adults must grow through. A part of growing up is taking responsibility, wrestling through the good and bad, and patiently enduring and attempting to comprehend people, personalities, situations and circumstances that may or may not be comfortable. Problem solving and in general keeping a willingness to learn or be taught what you may not know can positively result in growing up.
So what have you learned that is worth passing along to others?
The elders which are among you I exhort, who am also an elder, and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, and also a partaker of the glory that shall be revealed:
Feed the flock of God which is among you, taking the oversight thereof, not by constraint, but willingly; not for filthy lucre, but of a ready mind;
Neither as being lords over God's heritage, but being examples to the flock.
And when the chief Shepherd shall appear, ye shall receive a crown of glory that fadeth not away.
Likewise, ye younger, submit yourselves unto the elder. Yea, all of you be subject one to another, and be clothed with humility: for God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the humble.
Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time:
Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you.
Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:
Whom resist stedfast in the faith, knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren that are in the world.
But the God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that ye have suffered a while, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you.
To him be glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.
I Peter 5:1-11
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