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An insecure person sees everything as a threat; a secure person sees everything as a challenge.
Maturity is not a destination. It is a discipline to hold the direction toward the perfection in Christ. We never reach it. Those who claim it is a destination will not reach it for it is an immature desire that makes it attainable only in their own minds. There is no timetable for maturity, no completed process, no numbered steps. But there is progress in the direction and relaxation in knowing we are closer than when we first believed.
Too many people become dramatic about their problems. They subconsciously want to have problems too large for them so that they won’t be criticized for not solving them. There is real satisfaction in maturity: fewer mistakes to correct; fewer hurt feelings to mend; and many, many more right actions that pay compounded dividends.
Maturity is certainly not synonymous with old age, although most of us mistakenly expect to reach maturity and old age about the same time. Look around you: there are many immature, selfish, irritable, narrow-minded old folks. They certainly have not become mature with age, and no matter how old they get they will just be more like they are now. Maturity is a path we choose consciously and follow conscientiously.
