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Laboring For,
Maturity
Maturity. What is it? It's one of those words you can never get a handle on. It lends itself more to description than achievement; more to a lifestyle than an attainment.
Maturity may be defined more as a pilgrimage than an arrival; more a process than a possession.
The New Testament writer James properly describes maturity as "unswerving constancy" which he says leads to being ' perfect, complete, lacking in nothing." (1:3,4)
That sounds not only foreboding, but impossible. Can a person ever be that? Experience that? No, not totally.
Maturity is knowing no one can ever be fully mature; yet, maturity is not stymied by that reality, but rather is stimulated to keep striving for it.
This was the Apostle Paul s commitment; "I count not myself to have attained . . . but I press on to the mark of the prize of the high calling. . . ." (Phi.'. 3:13)
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