Grow Up

Each generation seems to be less responsible and less mature than the one before it. One of the signs of this is the fact that many adults live with and depend on their parents. According to the San Francisco Chronicle, “Statistics reveal that 25 percent of adult children between 30 and 34 still live at home or have returned home over a period of time (60 percent for the 22-to-24 set and about 30 percent for those from 25 to 29).”
We could postulate a number of different reasons for this phenomenon. People are getting more education, people are getting married later in life, and ultimately everyone (especially parents) is putting less and less responsibility on the shoulders of young adults. So, twenty-year-old guys sit around playing video games all day and party all night with their underwear hanging out of their pants. This is why twenty-year-old girls talk like ‘valley girls’ about meaningless things and wear too little with their underwear showing above their pants.
“When I was a child, I spake as a child, I felt as a child, I thought as a child: now that I am become a man, I have put away childish things,” 1 Corinthians 13:11. This is a principle. The church needs to lead the way in this society and the world concerning the way people should act. We should not shun proper responsibility. We should not put off growing up. Maturity should be sought by each and every one of us.
Christians are commanded to grow. “But speaking truth in love, we may grow up in all things into him, who is the head, even Christ,” Ephesians 4:15. “But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ…,” 2 Peter 3:18. God wants us to grow up and be more and more like Jesus. We also are to develop more grace (thankfulness) and knowledge. This requires that we encourage one another to grow and take the steps needed ourselves in order to mature according to the purpose which God has called us to His glory.