I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus. All of us who are mature should take such a view of things. And if on some point you think differently, that too God will make clear to you. 16 Only let us live up to what we have already attained. (Philippians 3:14-15)What makes a person mature? Is it just the fact that they have more than 21 years under their belts? Or is there more?
Maturity comes from being able to look at things differently from immature people.
Immature people only look at the surface. They only see what is obvious and cannot see the underlying meanings of the surface things.
One movie star was a beauty queen as a young woman. After she got old, she still dressed provocatively, and tried to keep her image as a beautiful woman, even to the point of hiring young body-builders to be her attendants and propping herself on them as she walked. She lived in the past because she could not accept the fact that she had aged.
Another famous movie star committed suicide on her 39th birthday because she could not bear to think of herself as a 40 year old woman. She also could not accept the fact that she was aging.
At high school reunions there is the guy who wants to talk about his success as a football player. He has done nothing of importance since and cannot stand to do anything but live in the past.
It is hard to accept the fact that your youth is gone and that you are different now. That is maturity. Maturity says that these things are gone and are irretrievable. The mature person accepts it and makes his or her life as good as he or she can now.
You put the old aside and accept the new. That is maturity.
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