When I Grow Up…
1 Corinthians 13:11 (Amplified Bible)
11When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child; now that I have become a man, I am done with childish ways and have put them aside.
1 Corinthians 14:20 (Amplified Bible)
20Brethren, do not be children [immature] in your thinking; continue to be babes in [matters of] evil, but in your minds be mature [men].
Over the years I have had several conversations about what my children wanted to do with their lives when they grew up. More recently my daughter who is seventeen has been having these conversations with me. For as far back as I can remember she wanted to become a world renowned chef, but over the last few years or so she still wants to be a chef but that is secondary to her aspirations of becoming a linguist. I have watched her dreams and aspiration, evolve as she has matured and grown. I still say at forty five when I grow up I want to obtain certain goals and to have certain attributes that people I view as more mature possess.
Today as I had time to reflect upon some gifts that God has bestowed upon me, I think of my grandmother and my mother, how I watched them pray for hours and minister to people. I watched how God would give them dreams and interpretations of dreams, words of wisdom and knowledge, thinking all the while they can keep that. My immature mind, could not fathom long hours on my face or on my knees establishing that kind of bond to get from God what they received. As I grew older and tests, trials and challenges began to hit my life I learned how to pray and get in God’s face by default. Through these issues I learned the importance of prayer and knowing God “like that” for myself. The legacy that was established generations before me, that I was in refusal to walk in when I was younger is now the call, gifting’s and work that I do. But it wasn’t until I got out of myself and my childish mindset that I was able to see what was good for me, what challenges me and what was and is God’s ultimate goal for me.
Not everything that we get warm and fuzzy over is what is good for us or even God’s plan for us. We have to mature to be able to accept what is God’s mature and ultimate goal and will for us. When we are immature, and in a childlike state we cannot see the work that it takes to obtain our legacy, God’s will and our destiny is not to break us, make us uncomfortable or stress us, but it is designed to bring us to a place of maturity, growth and utilization for God’s glory and the kingdom. So ask yourself when you grow up who do you see yourself becoming? Can you see yourself working and getting to God’s ultimate plan for your life?
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