Maturity

Maturity is oblong, especially for the Christian. It has to a greater or lesser degree sweeping connotations exacting respectively definite terms of manhood and womanhood. As much as I would like to appreciate the terms Westerners tend to associate with it, I cannot. These associations speak apprehensively about competence and certainty in all things which is something bound up in everything we are not. This is not to say we spurn responsibility or abuse opportunities given to us. I am saying the opposite with the caveat that we are failures embracing the victories Christ has won and set before us to walk into. For evangelicals, maturity is something sacred juxtaposed to something secular having affects that stretch into every domain of life. Where commonly, we tend to associate responsibility with lofty motions structured by tempered schedules and planned activities, planning for the sake of acquisition and entitlement is immoral. This is not to say planning itself is immoral, planning is good when it is suited with the realization that God sovereignly holds all things and brings them to pass or he does not. The problems with the Western appeals again and again invite arrogance and pride and given that we all desire to grow up I hope there are better connotations than these...