Why oh’ Why?

           As always me, my nanay (mom) and my youngest brother Rjay used to bonding together in the kitchen most of our time. Perhaps staying in the kitchen for most of my hour is a bad idea because I crave a lot and eat a lot. Yay! But that’s okay. Well, of course including chit-chatting and laughing together as part of our bonding moments in the kitchen, cooking is also one of our bonding activities. Fun! I’m now getting interested in cooking. Good for me. But it is not the thing why I suddenly post in here.

         I’d like to share what we’ve talked last night because it was significance to me and perhaps part of my purpose. And also I wanted to know their opinions and pretty curious how they responds to my question.

         I asked them exactly this question,  ”Why many people grow older but never grow up?” (actually millions of people)

 Nanay (Mom) answer after a few minutes she said, “Ganun talaga.” then hardly laughed. While my youngest brother said, “That’s life.”

 My answer to this question is because many people do not intend to grow up. As what I’ve read from a book, “millions Christian of people grow older but never grow up. they stuck in perpetual spiritual infancy, remaining in diapers and booties. The reason is that they never intended to grow.” It is related to my previous post Growing Up into Maturity.

It is actually in the Bible says, ”We are not meant to remain as children.” from Ephesians 4:14 

  Have you asked yourself this ”Am I really grown up?” If you can answer this question perhaps you are but not completely. Again and again, as what I’ve said from my previous post, Spiritual Maturity is a long, slow and gradual process of growth. That is why God gave us the opportunity to transform ourselves in developing Christlikeness and we completely grow.

        What is Christlikeness? Christlikeness is the character of Christ. When we all develop the character of Jesus that is the time you can say that you’re really grown up into maturity. It takes time and effort to develop all these Christlikeness. You might ask yourself, ‘It is impossible.’ Nope! You’re absolutely wrong, with God nothing is impossible.

         Here’s how to do that, this is just the first step towards in Christlikeness. Lets start first in our minds, how think. “Changing the way we think.” We are commanded to “think the same way that Christ Jesus thought” There are two parts of doing this. First half of this mental shift, “stop thinking immature thoughts”, which are self-centered and self-seeking.

         Most of us were born selfish, admit it or not. “Babies by nature are completely selfish. They think only of themselves and their own needs. They are incapable of giving; they can only receive. That is immature thinking. Unfortunately, many people never grow beyond that kind of thinking.”

         The Bible says, that selfish thinking is the source of sinful behavior: ”Those who live following their sinful selves think only about things that their sinful selves want.”

         Second half of thinking like Jesus is to “start thinking maturely”, which focuses on others, not yourself. Thinking of others, as Jesus did, instead of ourselves.

         All of these two takes a lot of effort to develop our growth. And you must be ready to face whatever test God might give you because I assure you God will really test you a lot like how God testing my character everyday. I say to you, If you really love Jesus and you want to be with him forever do as I’ve told you. It is never too late but procrastination is not good at all. I am praying that we all grow like an oak tree. It takes years.

“For God has planted them like strong and graceful oaks for his own glory.” -Isaiah 61:3

         If you want to know more about this, don’t hesitate to ask me questions. I’m always open to converse with you. シ 

   ”When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put childish ways behind me.” -Apostle Paul

       Can you answer my questions, Why many people grow older but never grow up?

This is the glory of God. Magnificent! ♥