Maturity

Physical maturity, social maturity, emotional maturity, and spiritual maturity. All different yet all related. Growth in one doesn't necessarily mean growth in another. We all understand physical maturity. All have experienced or will experience physical, but not all will come to social, emotional, or spiritual maturity. This impacts how we interact with other people and our interaction with the world impacts our maturity. Social maturity-know how to interact with others around us with respect and being aware of how our actions and words impact others. Emotional maturity-knowing that sometimes you can't control how others react, knowing that people make mistakes, knowing when to throw your pride away and forgive, spiritual maturity-learning from Jesus Christ and following God's word. All interconnect.



The past few weeks has been interesting as I observe and interact with people around me. I'm trying to be more aware of my thoughts and actions as I interact with people around me as well. I've been observing how they deal with conflict, how they treat other people around them, and how what they about others around them. I found that I have alot of growing I need to do :-(

What I observed the past few weeks...

People being rude, people working on their own agendas, people who are self absorbed, people seeking unhealthy things to make them happy because they are unhappy in their current situation, people have tunnel vision and unable to see another perspective or the big picture, etc. I observed a lot of social, emotional, and spiritual immaturity... and I'm including myself in this mix. I'm not any better. I think alot of the reactions, feelings, etc are wrapped up around pride. We hate to let someone else have the upper hand, don't we?

We think that we are better than what we actually are. I think that's why we need to regularly and honestly reevaluate ourselves. When we see truly see what we struggle with, is when we can really begin changing. We can only truly change, when we rely on Jesus Christ. Changes that we make for ourselves are always temporary and lack satisfaction.