Fakin' Maturity

In recent times I have been thinking about my personal maturity. I have been asking myself questions about whether or not I'm mature enough for certain things in life. I've wondered if I'm a mature man that is ready to move out west and get my own living. I've wondered if I'm ready to start dating. I've wondered if I am ready to support a wife or family, can I really see myself being able to do that in the future?

I have started thinking that I should soon be ready for these things, but instead I have realized that being eighteen doesn't make you a mature adult, it doesn't make you ready for certain things in life. I have realized that I may be fakin' the maturity of an adult. Am I really ready for the things that I say  or think I am ready for?

I think our culture has developed a false idea of maturity. See its not that people who turn eighteen are then able to handle smoking, voting, tobacco, or porn. The truth is that your not mature because you can do these things, but that by the time your eighteen you should have learned to be mature. Mature enough in your thinking and decision making to make the right decisions about these things in life.

Society seams to have created this identity where your fakin' your maturity. When we have started to put the measure of maturity into thing such as guns, big muscles, women, and money we are fakin' maturity. It is the respect and correct use of such things to benefit people and fulfill God's will that is maturity, not the possession of such things.

So, what is real maturity? I would say that real maturity is when you live out of a love for God and a desire to glorify Him. Maturity is when you live in concordance with the Word of God and let your life be a fulfillment of His will.

The profound reality isn't that maturity is something you acquire. Maturity is a result of experiences changing and giving wisdom to your way of thinking and living. Maturity is best strengthened when your realize that; Whoever finds their life will lose it, and whoever loses their life for my sake will find it. - Matthew 10:39