¹⁵ Rather, speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ, (Ephesians 4:15 ESV)

I remember thinking for a very long time, well into adulthood, that I needed to grow up. While I had an old soul, it took a long time for me to begin to feel that I had grown up. It was not that I did childish things, well for the most part. It was because it took me a long time to formulate just what being grown up meant. I think it took having children to begin to feel this way.

Christ wants us to grow up in every way into Him. This means speaking the truth in love as a sign of this “growing up” or maturity. It means that scripture takes on new meaning in our lives and that we are doing what we can to live a Christ like life.

When we begin to have children, and teach them things so that they might grow up right that, at least I, began to truly grow up. That and the responsibility we now have upon us makes us take a very different look at life. No longer can we afford some of the frivolity of our youth. We have to put on our big boy pants.

Even now, so many years later, I look back and see the growth (and in some places the lack there of) in my life. But in truth, I am still a child of God. Still maturing, still learning and still growing. This part of growing up will never change it is a lifetime goal.