22/10/2020
*PUT AWAY CHILDISHNESS*
Childishness doesn’t promote your life and thus, should not be tolerated. This is because the weightier matters and bigger responsibilities cannot be properly handled by children because they don't have capacity to build, maintain or sustain a great system.
Every adult you find today, in age, character or attitude, was once a babe. In 1 Corinthians 13:11, Paul said, “When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.” When growth happens, childishness is put away, naturally.
Paul reemphasized that in understanding, we shouldn't be children, but be adults (1 Corinthians 14:20). It is okay to be child-like, but dangerous to be childish.
*_Woe to thee, O land, when thy king is a child, and thy princes eat in the morning!_*
*Ecclesiastes 10:16 KJV*
*_Woe to you, O land, when your king is a child, and your princes feast in the morning!_*
*Ecclesiastes 10:16 ESV*
By natural default, children:
• Have poor reasoning and initiative.
• Have poor people-retention capacity.
• Gather and scatter; build and destroy, and most times, are the reason for the destruction and scattering, even without knowing.
• Seek applauds above correction.
• Are quick to forget how well you've been there for them because you didn't seem to be there for them the way they expected you to and as when they expected.
• Are defensive, full of excuses, argumentative, competitive and can be complacent.
• Will naturally fail in leadership because they lack capacity to curtail their own excesses, let alone the excesses of those they lead.
• Are in love with their comfort zones.
• Are destabilized by pressure and difficulty.
• Are full of excuses and are masters at casting blames on others. They lack a sense of responsibility.
• Are stuck to their own ideologies or the ideologies of only those in their circle of friends, irrespective of what truth is. They are driven by sentiments and carried away by whatever appeals to them.
• Are dependent and undependable. Adults are independent and dependable. Wise people are interdependent.
Children depend on others to get things done, even at old age. Unwise adults are independent for a cover, and thus, do well in a little way. Wise people are interdependent; they leverage on great minds to produce mind blowing results. They have great leaders, great teammates, and willing-to-learn protégés.
*_Now I say, That the heir, as long as he is a child, differeth nothing from a servant, though he be lord of all; But is under tutors and governors until the time appointed of the father._*
*Galatians 4:1-2 KJV*
If you put children (by manifestation) in leadership, you will have yourself to blame by the failure they will deliver, even upon their effort.
Children need to depend on adults to learn, but weak people use it forever as a means to livelihood instead of a stage of life. As a growing adult, you need to learn independence as a means to practicing all you learnt from your times of dependence. However, the unwise use it as a way to build safety and avoid disappointment.
If God can clearly show you how much childishness has messed up lives and delayed His will for many, you will passionately refuse to manifest as a child. To do more, become more. Don't remain a child and expect to be great at anything great.
Preston Idoro.
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