Becoming a Mature Man
Maturity, biblical maturity, and what it means for a man to take full responsibility for his doctrine, his household, his conduct, his thoughts, and his emotional life before God is a serious topic. Scripture does not define maturity by age, sincerity, or intentions, but by obedience and self-rule. There’s a time to be a child in our lives, and that’s the place we all begin. We start as mewling pukers in our mother’s arms, unable to even wipe our own butts, and then we gradually become more and more self-sufficient until we reach the age of 13, whereupon we are granted all knowledge and wisdom. However, we are not yet men, and our knowledge and wisdom are like a shallow pond, nice to look at, but kind of smelly, and it will injure you if you try to dive in. This stage is not entirely useless because it shows a longing and an innate urge to grow up and become something other than a child. We reach for this fruit too soon, and we fall out of the tree a few times, but we are growing....