We tend to think mostly of becoming mature in regard to sanctification’s growth process. That is true. That is the broad brush. But I have been thinking about other aspects of maturity. There is the maturity of faith, which is to trust Him at all times without hesitancy or faltering. There is the maturity of patience, which knows how to keep anger away. There is the maturity of perseverance, which keeps pressing forward to the goal. There is the maturity of joy, which rejoices in the right things. There is the maturity of gentleness, which needs not repress some contrary thought. There is the maturity of emotions, when we do not allow emotions to push us to places we have learned not to go. There is the maturity of meekness and humility where wrongful pride has died. We need the Spirit to help us to develop these and many other aspects of maturity.
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