day no. 15,048: the man in the mirror

1 Corinthians 13:11-12
When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I gave up childish ways. 12 For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I have been fully known.

Becoming a man involves repenting of childishness.  You do not become a man merely by getting older. You can be a grown man physically and still be a boy spiritually.

Children talk, think and reason a particular way. The common ingredient in everything for them is their inability to NOT do whatever it is they WANT to do. If they want to say something, they say it. If they want to think a certain way, they think it and there is no reasoning them out of it. You cannot reason with them. They have an internal, indestructible logic that rules them. They are unable to rule their own spirit as evidenced by their complete utter inability to say, "No" to themselves in any capacity or to any degree.

But even the man of God who regularly says, "No" to himself in order to say, "Yes" to God sees only a glimpse of who and what he will be. The sanctified self is a mere shadow of the glorified self yet to come. Then we shall see God as He is and we shall become fully mature in Christ.

1 John 3:2
Beloved, we are God’s children now, and what we will be has not yet appeared; but we know that when he appears we shall be like him, because we shall see him as he is.

Colossians 1:28
Him we proclaim, warning everyone and teaching everyone with all wisdom, that we may present everyone mature in Christ.

Ephesians 4:11-14
And He gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the shepherds and teachers, 12 to equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ, 13 until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to mature manhood, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ, 14 so that we may no longer be children, tossed to and fro by the waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by human cunning, by craftiness in deceitful schemes.

Philippians 3:14-16
I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus. 15 Let those of us who are mature think this way, and if in anything you think otherwise, God will reveal that also to you. 16 Only let us hold true to what we have attained.