You Need to Mature

A few days ago, I felt my spirit tap me on the shoulder while I was in the sauna. There I am sweating in the heat, ruminating on thoughts that are centered on insecurity, when she intrusively busted in on my thoughts and spoke up. “You need to mature,” she said. It caught me so off guard. I knew she was right, but I also felt somewhat embarrassed that she was listening so closely to my thoughts.

In that moment, I knew I couldn’t avoid her, so I listened. She said, “Soul, you can’t focus on those stupid insecurities. You aren’t even insecure in those areas anymore. You gained healing and freedom. What you’re seeing and hearing are projections from the frequency of the culture that’s surrounding you. They’re lies. Stop listening to them. Stop catastrophizing your future. Instead, focus in on where I’m leading. I need you to press into me for more answers about where we are going next. Dwelling on these stupid thoughts is distracting us. It’s piling unnecessary fear and panic on you. Go higher.”

My spirit’s words to my soul are entirely true. She was and still is definitely calling my soul to mature. She can see where Holy Spirit is leading me next, and she knows it’s big. Funny thing, my soul knows the next is big too. This is why she keeps looking at past insecurities. She’s sees and hears the projections being weaponized at her and she’s scared. She’s afraid past insecurities will cause her to fail in areas where she wants to succeed.

My spirit doesn’t see it that way though. My spirit expects more out of my soul. She knows we’ve journeyed far too long in this area to be overrun by the fear of past insecurities causing us to fail. She wants my soul to turn down the noise being projected towards her. She wants my soul to mature past this place because it’s a battlefield we conquered long ago.

Maturity is costly though. It’s this phase of cultivation that relies on total assurance inside of the soul that says, “I’ve been healed of my fragmented past, and I’m free. I’m no longer dictated by it in a negative way, nor will I listen to the projections within my soul from the kingdom of darkness that want to pull me back into it. I don’t consider the chatter of past brokenness because I am no longer moved by the things that once instigated and brought about evil, death and decay.”

So, this is where I am. I’m choosing to firmly stand in a place of maturity in this area. Even today when I felt the projections and the noise rise up, I told them, “No. No, you will not harm my soul today. You will not pull her into a spiral of fear where she starts to question if she’s enough. We are not doing this. We are choosing to focus our thoughts on the higher reality. We are choosing to look up at where we are headed while following our human spirit and Holy Spirit.”

I don’t know what phase of cultivation you’re in in areas of your life. Maybe Holy Spirit is pressing you to refine, develop, and grow, so maturity isn’t on the docket yet. However, if you’re in the place I’m in… If your spirit and Holy Spirit are demanding you to mature in areas where you’ve already healed and attained freedom, then I want to encourage you to lean into the maturity. Don’t slump around and believe the toxicity the kingdom of darkness is projecting towards you. Look up. Focus on what’s above. See your human spirit and the assignments it’s been given with Holy Spirit and keep moving forward.

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