1 Corinthians 13:11
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.
A child who thinks like a child is right on schedule, but a man who still thinks like a child has missed his transfer.
Matthew 18:3
Truly, I say to you, unless you turn and become like children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.
There is a kind of childishness that is required of a man in order to be a man; but there is also a brand of manliness that prevents a man from being a man of God.
1 Corinthians 14:20
Brothers, do not be children in your thinking. Be infants in evil, but in your thinking be mature.
There is no shame in innocence, but there is in immaturity. We should not strive for ignorance, but we must not try to remedy it with arrogance or indulgence.
Hebrews 5:12-14
For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you again the basic principles of the oracles of God. You need milk, not solid food, for everyone who lives on milk is unskilled in the word of righteousness, since he is a child. But solid food is for the mature, for those who have their powers of discernment trained by constant practice to distinguish good from evil.
Maturity is a product of continual practice whereas immaturity can be achieved by accident. Routine is inescapable. It isn't a question of IF you will have a habit, but rather WHICH habits will you have, or even more to the point, which habits will have you.
Grow up.
Repent.
Stop being too old for innocence and too young for obedience.
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