Thursday Ponderings

Pauline's Thursday Ponderings! 13th June 2013

G’day and welcome to Pauline's Thursday Ponderings! ~~~~~ Maturity as a person is about growing up, becoming responsible for looking after oneself, making our own decisions. As a child someone else makes our decisions for us, and someone else pays the bills and buys our food and clothes. Some people as adults find it hard to make decisions, this is often because they were not allowed to make decisions as they grew up and therefore have no trust in their own judgement. ~~~~~ As a Christian God longs that we become mature in spiritual matters. That we learn to trust him when things appear to be not working out. That we lay before Him, important decisions and surrender to His will. I have found that if I am spending time with Him on a daily basis and am leading my life according to His commands, then the decisions I make are the ones that He wants me to make. Even on little things like buying a birthday present, I pray that God will inspire me and I normally find out that the present I bought was just what the person wanted. ~~~~~ From Ephesians 4:14-15 we learn that we are not to remain as infants tossed back and forth by the waves and blown here and there by every wind of teaching and by the cunning And craftiness of people in their deceitful scheming. Instead, speaking the truth in love, we will grow to become in every respect the mature body of him who is the head, that is Christ. ~~~~~ Clearly this is saying we need in order to be mature to know what our bible says and what it means, so we won’t be led astray by false teaching. Also we need to speak the truth, which is an important part of being a Christian. So, I know I’ve said this before but you need to spend time with God, reading his word. You need to be careful that you don’t lie and you need to listen to God. ~~~~~ Right Mouse click to save this as an audio mp3 file Click the link below to subscribe to this site! iTunes Tweet