What About Growing Up?

Life is all about growing up…physically, mentally and spiritually. Physically you don’t have much say so in the matter. It just happens. You grow taller and fatter and your hair and skin get thinner and thinner. There’s not much you can do about that. Your body just ages like all living things. You’re born, you get old and you die.

But mentally and spiritually you have a say so in how old you want to be. You can choose not to grow up. You can remain an infant or a teenager forever. Think about it. It’s really a choice you make. You can decide to stop growing at any point along the way.

I need to grow up. I want my spiritual hair to turn gray, my spiritual skin to get thin. I need to look to the future…do some long range planning. I’m talking about “Eternity type” long range planning.

What did God make me for anyway …just to get old and die? I think not.



Thank you, Lord, for making me.

Thank you, Lord, for allowing me to grow up.

Please, Lord Jesus, help me to make plans for eternity and help me stick to the plan.

Amen.


1/11/2008