Growing Up Childishness

Growing Up 

Childishness

“When I became a man, I put childish ways behind me.”

How do you view growing up

Putting away childish things in your

Talking, thinking and reasoning

Paul the Apostle says…

“When I was a child, I talked like a child,

I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child.”

How do children talk, think and reason?

Where do they learn to talk, think and reason?

At what age do these three important

aspects of life start to develop?

They start the day we are

born and maybe even earlier.

We may not think about it until the

child reached school age where we turn

them over to someone else to teach them…

BUT

Their learning, talking, and reasoning starts at birth.

When you talk to someone over

50 they will tell you time flies.

How quickly from birth our years pass.

On day one of your life you knew nothing.

By age 2 you knew everything

and ready to control your world.

It is very important, we realize how important

the first things we learn are compared to the rest of our lives.

Learning how to talk, think, and reason

from those early years is hard to change.

I know a young man from the north

who went off to college in the south.

He meets a wonderful young lady from the south.

She talks with a strong southern accent,

frankly I love it, whenever I see her

I ask her to talk so I can hear the accent.

Now married, she lives in the north with her husband.

Despite the fact that northerners do “not

talk with an accent”, she has not been

able to learn how to talk like a northerner.

We don’t change easily from

those early developing years.

   Many parents cannot see their child as an adult,

a productive part of society until they get to

the age of an adult and then they can’t wait till they

move out so they can face reality and grow up.

We may not think so, but when the Bible says, “Train

up a child” it is making a very profound statement.

Foolishness is bound in the heart

of a child according to the Bible.

My observation… Is this is a true statement.

As parents, Sandy and I were very

proactive in training our children.

 As grandparents, we see the importance of

training our grandchildren even more seriously.

We have lived long enough to see our

children grow up and have families of their own.

We can see the results of our efforts,

 both good and not so good.

We see our children and their spouses, like us,

 raising children with a lack of experience.

How our children talk, think and reason is a very

important role of the parents and should be thought

out very carefully even before the children are born.

Discipline is foundational to learning.

Discipline must be developed in a child’s

life in order for them to be successful.

  Discipline changes the outcome from “chance” to “purpose”.

Whether we are raising children

or looking at our own life…

We need to be like the Apostle Paul who said…

“When I became a man,

I put childish ways behind me.”

How do you view growing up?

Putting away childish things in your

 talking, thinking and reasoning.

Scripture Reading

1 Corinthians 13:8-13 NIV

8 Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. 9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part, 10 but when perfection comes, the imperfect disappears. 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. 12 Now we see but a poor reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.

13 And now these three remain: faith, hope and love.

But the greatest of these is love.