Somewhat Childish
April 24, 2025

KEY FROM GOD’S WORD:

1 Corinthians 13:11
When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.

THOUGHTS ON GOD’S WORD:

     Imagine with me for a minute that you walk into a room, and in the center of that room, you see someone playing with Barbie dolls and having a pretend tea party with an imaginary friend. In the next room, you see someone playing with GI Joe army men and plastic tanks, and you hear them going, “Boom, boom,” pretending to blow up a cereal box fortress. Sounds like a couple of children having a blast. However, what if I told you the people playing in the rooms were 45 years old, and this is all they ever do? You would probably think, Oh, how sad, they must have grown up physically but never grown up psychologically.

     Now, think about the life of today’s so-called mature Christians. Are they still playing with their childish ways? Some people do not want to grow up spiritually. They received salvation and said that is enough for me. However, this is not enough. There is so much more as we grow in the Lord. We should be going to church at every opportunity to learn more and more about our Christian Walk, Jesus, God, The Holy Spirit, Evangelism, Soul Winning, Bible Study, Teaching Others, Serving God, Worship, and this is the small list. If you have mastered all that, then you are doing great. However, if you are like me, you will learn more and more every day. As we look at people who have been saved for 20 and 30 years and who have not grown, what should we be saying? That is OK, it is their choice in life. Or, oh how sad, they never grew up spiritually. Immature Christians are missing so much more of what God has to offer.

CARRYING THAT THOUGHT THROUGH THE DAY:

    

     Psalm 119:18 says, “Open thou mine eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of thy law.”  I pray this almost every time I open the pages of God’s Word. You know what? If I am genuinely looking for Him to show me something, He does open my spiritual eyes and teaches me something new and wonderful!

Will you pray this verse and mean it as you open God’s Word Today?

IF YOU ARE JOURNALING:

Ask yourself, what are MY THOUGHTS concerning this Passage and today’s Devotion?

Do I find within this reading a CHALLENGE for my life?

What are one or two things I WILL DO today or this week to accept that CHALLENGE?

  

GOD TALKING TO ME:  April 24, 2025

THROUGH THE BIBLE ACCELERATED READING
^{(OT-1, NT & PS-2, Prov-Monthly)}
Judges 5, 6 – Psalm 97
Proverbs 24 – 1 Corinthians 13, 14

THROUGH THE BIBLE OLD & NEW TESTAMENT DAILY
1 Samuel 2-4  –  Luke 16:18-31