Toward Maturity

Notes:

This passage points us to the expectation that we move toward maturity. It is assumed that we would grow up and become something more than we are even at the time of conversion. There is a stinging rebuke for staying immature in the faith. It’s like the teenager that lives in your house and refuses to grow up. He wants to enjoy the benefits of adulthood, the freedoms, but he has yet to understand or be capable of taking on the responsibilities.

English Standard Version Chapter 10

A wise son makes a glad father,

but a foolish son is a sorrow to his mother.

English Standard Version Chapter 10

He who gathers in summer is a prudent son,

but he who sleeps in harvest is a son who brings shame.

English Standard Version Chapter 17

25  A foolish son is a grief to his father

and bitterness to her who bore him.