When I'm Grown Up

“Urge the young men to be sensible.” Titus 2:6

Growing old is easy…growing up is hard.

“When I was a child, I used to speak as a child, I think as a child, reason as a child; when I became a man, I did away with childish things.” 1 Cor 13:11

Growing old is easy…growing up is hard.

Our Creator designed us for seasons. Sociologists and other scientists have given these “seasons” names: Infancy, early childhood, pre-adolescence, adolescence, early adulthood (now apparently delayed till age 26), adulthood, mid-life, etc. Our children’s ministry team has actually assigned them rooms!

• Infants: “We shall not all sleep, but we SHALL all be changed!”
• Crawlers: “Someday every knee shall bow and every tongue confess…”
• Toddlers: “But walk in a manner worthy…”
• Preschoolers: “If anyone causes one of these little ones to stumble…”
• Elementary: “But solid food is for the mature, who because of practice, have their senses trained…”
• Youth: “How shall a young man keep his way pure?”
• Young Adults: “Let no one look down on your youthfulness…”
• Seasoned Saints: “Older men are to be…older women likewise…”
• Living Models: “The glory of young men is their strength, and the honor of old men is their gray hair.”
  

Growing old is easy. You just have to live long enough! But growing up…that is hard work!



“For by this time you ought to be teachers, you have need again for someone to teach you the elementary principles of the oracles of God, and you have come to need milk and not solid food. For everyone who partakes only of milk is not accustomed to the word of righteousness, for he is a babe. But solid food is for the mature, who because of practice have their senses trained to discern good and evil. Therefore, leaving the elementary teaching about Christ, let us press on to maturity…” Hebrews 5:12-14/6:1

“Discipline yourself for the purpose of godliness; for bodily discipline is only of little profit (THAT is a truth you come to understand as you grow older), but godliness is profitable for all things, since it holds promise for the present life and also for the life to come!” 1 Timothy 4:7-8

Growing old is easy…growing up is hard. Grow up!

This Sunday we consider three essentials for growing up…
1) Knowledge
2) Obedience
3) Time

See you Sunday, Church!
Pastor Tom