#1-Healthy Decisions (are optional)
1 COR. 13:11, “When I was a child, … I put away childish things.”

#2 - HEALTHY UNDERSTANDINGS (are optional)
1 COR. 13:11, “When I was a child, …I understood as a child, ….”

#3 - HEALTHY TALKING (is optional)
1 COR. 13:11, “When I was a child, …I spoke as a child, ….”

#4 - HEALTHY THINKING (is optional)
1 COR. 13:11, “When I was a child, ...I thought as a child, ....”

- thought - to put together by mind, to inventory by reason. Because of the many uses of this word it not only compares child-like with mature, it compares heaven’s thoughts with man’s.

How do children think?
I am important - I am bigger - I am better - I am able - I am too! (argumentative)

IT’S ALL ABOUT THE “I”
- I am important -

-think more highly - consider of great importance.

- I am bigger - child-like thinking exaggerates self.

- deceives - mind misleader. This is the mind leading us to a wrong place. This is not the devil doing something. This is immature, non-heaven-like thinking.

- I am better - child-like thinking believes in personal “production.”

- I am able - child-like thinking overestimates understanding.

- wise in this age - pretends understanding, specifically in worldly wisdom.

- I am too - child-like thinking is argumentative.