christian adolescent

Categories: forty-blogs-of-lent

Date: 22 March 2012 23:33:58

Forty blogs of Lent

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Hebrews 5:11-14 CEB

 We have a lot to say about this topic, and it's difficult to explain, because you have been lazy and you haven't been listening. Although you should have been teachers by now, you need someone to teach you an introduction to the basics about God's message. You have come to the place where you need milk instead of solid food. Everyone who lives on milk is not used to the word of righteousness, because they are babies. But solid food is for the mature, whose senses are trained by practice to distinguish between good and evil.

Is it possible to be in the middle somewhere? Not a spiritual baby, but not mature either, because that's where I find myself, stuck in a perpetual spiritual adolescence. I want my own way, then when I screw up I shout, "It's not fair." at God like a spotty teenager having a stroppy fit. How do I get out of this Christian adolescence and move on to maturity?