Adulting Well

"You have been Christians a long time now, and you ought to be teaching others, but instead you have dropped back to the place where you need someone to teach you all over again the very first principles in God’s Word. You are like babies who can drink only milk, not old enough for solid food. And when a person is still living on milk it shows he isn’t very far along in the Christian life, and doesn’t know much about the difference between right and wrong. He is still a baby Christian!" 1 Corinthians 5:12-13

Are you adulting well?

As young children we often look up to grownups with wonder about what our own grownup life might look like one day.  Who will we marry?  Will we have children?  If so, how many?  What sort of job might we have?  Where will we live and what will our house look like?  On and on the thoughts and questions swirl in our minds.  And while God cares very much about all of these things, adulting well in His Kingdom has a different focus.  

Him.  

Adulting well in God's Kingdom has greater dreams and visions for the future:  God's.  It doesn't seek its own way, and like a child the spiritually mature person is dependent on God every second of every day.  But unlike a child, Christ-followers have the mind of Christ, being able to discern spiritual things.

Notice what 1 Corinthians 2:15-16 says, "But he who is spiritual judges all things, yet he himself is rightly judged by no one. For 'who has known the mind of the Lord that he may instruct Him?' But we have the mind of Christ" (NKJV).

Some of the most adult Christians I have ever met are very young.  This is consistent with Isaiah 11:6, which tells us, "In that day the wolf and the lamb will lie down together, and the leopard and goats will be at peace. Calves and fat cattle will be safe among lions, and a little child shall lead them all" (TLB).

How appropriate that the love chapter in the Holy Bible, 1 Corinthians 13, states, "It’s like this: when I was a child I spoke and thought and reasoned as a child does. But when I became a man my thoughts grew far beyond those of my childhood, and now I have put away the childish things" (NKJV).

The thoughts swirling around in the adult Christian's mind are things like:  What will bring the most glory to You today, Lord?  Show me anything that needs repentance and change.  I wonder who I will have the opportunity to serve well today.  I praise You and am so grateful that You are leading me!

I think John the Baptist said it best in John 3:30 with, "He must increase, but I must decrease" (NKJV).

Goodnight, Runners.