Growing Wiser

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I used to think the whole wide world

Revolved around just me,

But that view changed as I grew up

To be older than three.

 

Then in my teens I realized

That I knew so much more

Than any adult ever born

Who walked this earth before.

 

With age has come the harsh wisdom

That I’ve still much to learn,

And I may never learn it all

Before I’ve lost my turn.

 

But from my wild, delinquent youth,

Through my years as a teen,

And into my old age I’ve found

One truth I’ve always seen.

 

You loved me as a little child,

And, even as I’ve grown,

You haven’t given up on me.

You’ve loved me as Your own.

 

1 Corinthians 13: 11

When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me.