It's time to grow up

It’s Time to Grow Up!
Has anyone in your family ever told you to ‘grow up, your acting just like a little kid,’ I know I was told that more than once. My
great come back was, " Oh yea, you too!" It’s so funny how we acted when we were kids. Then, finally we do grow up, physically and maturely. We leave those kids’ ways behind us.
1 Cor 13:11
11 When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put childish ways behind me.
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It isn’t easy growing up in the natural or Spiritual. It’s a process.
Spiritual: It’s up to you how quickly you grow
Natural: For your body, it’s a matter of time.
Natural maturity: It’s a matter of time & it can be up to you after you reach adult hood
God expects every believer to grow up, just like you expect your children to grow up one day. How would it make you feel if you see your 17year old son/daughter sitting on your couch hugging their baby blanket and sucking on a bottle? I know what I would think;‘when is this kid going to grow up and stop acting like a baby.’
1 Peter 2:1-3
2:1 Therefore, rid yourselves of all malice and all deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and slander of every kind. 2 Like newborn babies, crave pure spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow up in your salvation, 3 now that you have tasted that the Lord is good.
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Eph 4:14-15
14 That we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive;
15 But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ:
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If you have been a Christian for awhile and still making the same mistakes (sin) as you did when you first accepted Jesus as your Savior, then something is wrong. Either your not spending time in Gods Word and in prayer or you don’t believe that you can change, so why try, right? I have heard people say, ‘I have been this way for 20 years, and I will probably be this way for the next 20 yrs.’ The problem is that people have set limitations on themselves. They just cannot believe that they can change.
Let me give you an example about limitations. This might be a strange example but it will get my point across.
Circus Elephants: Have you ever seen the elephants tied up around the ankle behind the big circus tents? Have you ever wondered how in the world those elephant just stand there with out getting loose? The stakes look like regular old tent stakes. You know common sense tells you that a big 4000 lbs. elephant could easily pull that little old stake up out of the ground. You know what? That elephant doesn’t know that. He really doesn’t. You and I can see the big picture but the elephant can’t. Ever since that elephant was a baby, the people that trained him had to drive a stake deep down into the ground and tie the baby elephant’s leg to it. Of course the baby elephant will try to get away. After time has past and the elephant gets older, he finally gives up trying to get away. So, all you have to do is drive a tent stake into the ground; put a rope around the elephant’s leg and he will not leave that spot because he believes he can not get away. The elephant puts limitations on himself.
What kind of limitations have you put on yourself?
It’s time to start growing up Spiritually and put your old ways behind you.
Remember what Jesus said to the woman that was caught in adultery after everyone drops the stone they had and walked away. John 8:11
11 "No one, sir," she said.
"Then neither do I condemn you," Jesus declared. "Go now and leave your life of sin."
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Jesus doesn’t want you to continue in your sin. He wants you to leave your old ways, and grow up spiritually. If you weren’t able to do that, then He would have told that lady ‘don’t worry if you continue in your sin I will have mercy on you,’ but, He didn’t say that.
There are several reasons why you need to grow up Spiritually, but I’m going to give you just one for now.
Babies can’t talk or walk. In the natural or Spiritual. Natural babies are totally depending on others. Spiritual babies have to depend on others to fight all of their Spiritual battles for them. You need to learn to stand on God’s Word for yourself. I’m not saying you shouldn’t have people praying for you, but there are times that you need to pray for yourself and for others. God wants you to grow up. Just like you want to see your own children grow up. It’s up to you.