Maturity is not merely something you do with your mind. No, maturity is about how you live your life. It is possible to be theologically astute in yet very immature. It is possible to be biblically literate and in need of significant spiritual growth.
Maturity
Oswald Chambers
Spiritual maturity is not reached by the passing of the years, but by obedience to the will of God. Some people mature into an understanding of God’s will more quickly than others because they obey more readily; they more readily sacrifice the life of nature to the will of God.
Brennan Manning
Jesus comes not for the super-spiritual but for the wobbly and the weak-kneed who know they don’t have it all together, and who are not too proud to accept the handout of amazing grace. As we glance up, we are astonished to find the eyes of Jesus open with wonder, deep with understanding, and gentle with compassion.
Katherine Walden
For many years, I pleaded with God to bring people to me who would hold me up. I believed I was too broken and weak to stand on my own. In His wisdom, He didn’t answer my prayer the way I thought He should. He provided me with wise mentors who opened my eyes to this truth. I would never develop an inner strength without facing adversity head on. They provided me with the tools I needed, God provided me with His empowering grace, and it was up to me to allow my roots to grow deep. It was up to me to face adversity head on and to not retreat.
Norman Dent
There are no shortcuts to spiritual maturity.
Rick Warren
When God wants to remove the defects in your life, he doesn’t just snap his fingers so that it happens instantly. He does it incrementally. When God wants to make a mushroom, he takes six hours, but when he wants to make an oak tree, he takes 60 years. Do you want to be a mushroom or an oak tree?
Fyodor Dostoyevski
It is not as a child that I believe and confess Jesus Christ. My hosanna is born of a furnace of doubt.
Author Unknown
What is Christian maturity?
It is silence when our words would hurt;
It is patience when we’re being hurt;
It is deafness when scandal flows;
It is thoughtfulness for another’s woes;
It is sharing whatever little we have;
It is being kind rather than being right most of the time.
Lisa Bevere
Sometimes arriving too quickly is detrimental. It is dangerous to arrive without our character mature or intact.
Oswald Chambers
It will be a wonderful moment for some of us when we stand before God and find that the prayers we clamoured for in early days and imagined were never answered, have been answered in the most amazing way, and that God’s silence has been the sign of the answer. If we always want to be able to point to something and say, “This is the way God answered my prayer,” God cannot trust us yet with His silence.