If I were asked, "How can you tell if a person is mature?" I would respond by saying, "If a person consistently acts in a mature manner, he would be a mature person. However, if on the other hand he consistently acts in an immature manner, you can be certain that he would be an immature person. While none of us is perfect or completely mature, if we understand the characteristics of maturity, we can work on these to grow in maturity.
What many fail to see is that we cannot have spiritual maturity without a healthy level of emotional maturity. While our spiritual maturity will be reflected in the quality of our relationship to God, emotional maturity will be reflected in the quality of our relationships with people. They go hand in hand. As God's Words say, "If anyone says, 'I love God,' yet hates his brother, he is a liar. For anyone who does not love his brother, whom he has seen, cannot love God, whom he has not seen." Many may disagree, but in reality I'm no closer to God that I am to people.
Spiritual and emotional maturity will pretty much guarantee that we will have quality relationship with God, others and our self.
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