Playing to Long with Immaturity

It’s been a while since I made a post to my blog. Man I am glad to be back!!! Well some of you may be wondering where I've been for the past 9 months. I've been on a journey to find out why I’ve play so long with my immaturity and why so many others have done the same. Trickles, squirts, and gushes characterize my degrees of immaturity with power, money, sex, and relationships. The topic intrigued me as I observed immaturities rapid progression in today’s society. I found myself even more interested in the subject as I journeyed back through my many battles with it.

Ephesians 4:14-16. The Message Bible says it like this, “No prolonged infancies among us, please!We’ll not tolerate babes in the woods, children who are an easy mark for imposters. God wants us to grow up, to know the whole truth and tell it in love- like Christ in everything. We take our lead from Christ, who is the source of everything we do. He keeps us in step with each other. His very breath and blood flow through us, nourishing us so that we will grow up healthy in God, robust in love.”

Why do we keep repeating bad decisions we know are bad? Let’s take a look at the first and worst decision man has ever made to answer this question.

Jesus desires us to know the whole truth and tell it in love. He also desires us to let his breath and blood flow through us, nourishing us so we can grow up healthy and robust in God’s love. But due to choice, the lack of nurturing, curiosity, and willful ignorance immaturity is flourishing in our world today. Let’s go to Genesis 3, the book where we will find immaturity's origin and its affect on the first and worst decision man ever made.

Prying, the serpent tempts Eve with an unnecessary question to stimulate her already busy curiosity. Why was her curiosity busy? Like Adam Eve was wired to learn every day from God but the premature question of the serpent led her to doubt or over-think God’s commands to her and Adam. Too many questions or just the right question will heighten anyone’s curiosity to know a better way.     

So what is immaturity? “If I had to define immaturity it would be a lack of knowledge or loose morals. Hosea 4:6 says, “My people are destroyed or ruined for lack of knowledge. Immaturity in 2 Timothy 3:7 is a mind always learning but never coming to know the truth. It wasn’t God’s absence they lacked? But the couple did lack the living truth! Unhealthy curiosity or prying teaches us to lust. Healthy curiosity or discovering the living truth teaches us to know and serve God and mankind unconditionally. They wanted to know and experience too soon. The immature are easily convinced, eager to see, and ready to taste. Immaturity wants to know everything quickly. It always wants to involve others in wrong.  It always says, “I know already” and is clueless to all of what is really happening. Because we have the knowledge of good and evil in us we come to earth lacking but still thinking we know. Immaturity, choice, and an unhealthy curiosity led them to a bad decision and disobedience.

So is immaturity bad and was immaturity present in the couple before sin? Let’s try and answer that. God creates heaven and earth, rests, and then forms man out of the dirt. He blows into his nostrils the breath of life and man comes alive. God makes a garden, puts man in the garden to work it, and instructs him what he should and shouldn’t eat. God proceeds to form the animals of the field and the birds of the air. He brings them to man and tells him whatever he names them that’s its name. Finally God sees the man is lonely and makes him a wife and helper compatible to him. The man’s got the best mentor ever, a home like no other, a stay at home job, is creative, and a wife shaped by the very hands of God. The man’s got it together.  After reading Genesis 1 and 2 Adam has to be fully mature for God to give him dominion over earth and all its animals’ right? Wrong! God was teaching Adam self-control, wisdom by his presence, the benefit of work, and the benefits of compatible relationship. He was still learning. I believe immaturity is a part of the breath of life God gave him. We confirm immaturity being in them before they sinned by how quick he ate the fruit and how quick she was deceived. So, immaturity is not bad because it is a part of God’s breath of life that was given to them before they sinned. There’s innocence in immaturity that makes it good. Jesus said suffer the little children to come unto me for such is the kingdom of heaven. Immaturity is unripeness or the unripe parts of our learning and development.(To be continued)