1 Corinthians 14:20
Brothers, do not be children in your thinking. Be infants in evil, but in your thinking be mature.
There is a good and godly way to be childish and a bad and ugly way to be childish. Christians should not be childish in their thinking, but they should be childish in their innocence.
We tend to be mature in evil and immature in thinking. It comes naturally to us like the way kicking, screaming and arching one's back in protest come naturally to a child. We know all the ins and outs of evil. We know far more than we should and we are not the better for it. But we are newbs when it comes to thinking and discernment. We do not by nature put much thought or effort into understanding the ins and outs of righteousness, piety, good works and godliness.
We should not be ignorant of evil, but we should not have PhDs either. We should know what evil is and what it's trying to do, but we shouldn't have a resume' full of anecdotes and endless experiential knowledge of the times we lived out the lessons of deeper, darker deeds. Our familiarity with them should be from discerning them from a distance, not getting overly acquainted with them up close.
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