Our development as Christians has very little to do with our actual age. It doesn’t even seem to have much to do with how long we’ve been Christians. A teenager who’s only been at church a few years can be a more mature Christian than a grown man who’s been a Christian his whole life. Because your faith doesn’t grow with time, it grows with practice. If we enthusiastically choose to get ourselves baptised, or confirmed, or anything like that, but don’t move on to the deeper aspects of our faith, we may get on to the path but we’ll just stand still. And when people stand still for too long, they get distracted by things around them, and might forget what brought them to this point in the first place! Nobody wants to be fifty years old and still relying on their mum to do all their washing and cooking. In the same way, our spiritual maturity should be something we want to develop all the time. This means two things; listening to God, and doing the stuff, both in your church, and wherever else you happen to be!
