Maturity

How would you know if your faith is supeficial or genuine? Answer - by the fruit of your growth. The desire to grow is the most natural thing in the world. Because of it, the child forever extracts his thumb saying, “I’m no baby.” The desire to grow is part of life!
When we observe someone who has had his physical or mental growth inhibited, we are properly saddened. But how much more proper and beneficial for us it would be if we could see stunted spiritual growth in its full-blown grotesqueness. Spiritual maturity — being full-grown — is possible if we simply take God’s Word seriously.