Many people face situations that, to them, seem insurmountable. What they are facing is beyond them and their ability to solve.

Yet I often see people facing problems that I can see the potential in them to solve or overcome. They just haven’t come to maturity yet. I can see that when they mature they could solve the problem easily. But they can’t seem to see that for themselves.

When an area of weakness, immaturity or ineptness comes to light in someone’s life there are various responses:

Some are hopeless. They see the problem and give up before even trying to mature. They don’t believe they could ever change for the better.

Some are condemned. They just see themselves as guilty and rejected so, again, they don’t try.

Some are challenged. They see their weakness and have a self-will that says, ‘I don’t accept that! I can change that.’ These people move into action to bring about change within themselves.

Some just forgive themselves. They see that they have a weakness, but decide to just accept that they are that way instead of changing for the better. Sometimes, we forgive ourselves too much which causes us to be deaf to the pleas for us to mature.

I want to encourage you to see that coming to maturity in various areas of your life is worth the effort. When you mature, it diminishes the size of problems in how you see them.

So my encouragement to you today is simple:

Grow Up!