What Do We Do When The World Makes No Sense by “Brother Bill”
What do we do?
“When the World Makes No Sense anymore : Trusting the God Who Never Changes seems scary at first like riding a bike it becomes more natural ?”
Today my own testimony of daily ongoing transformation from self-centered independence to Christ-centered interdependence. The journey described in my life transforming me daily it seems mirrors the biblical path from fleshly immaturity to spiritual maturity, from self-rule to Spirit-led cooperation in the body of Christ . Sooo join me as I seem to be crucified with Christ taking up my cross daily Galatian’s 2:20. Below are NKJV verses that support each phase of that growth — from my childish flesh to Jesus compassionate spirituality.
From Childish Flesh to Spiritual Maturity
1. The Childish Way: Self-Centeredness
“When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things.”
— 1 Corinthians 13:11 (NKJV)
A child reacts to unmet desires — craving attention, fairness, and control. Paul uses this imagery to describe immaturity in speech, thought, and understanding — ruled by emotion and ego.
“For where there are envy, strife, and divisions among you, are you not carnal and behaving like mere men?”
— 1 Corinthians 3:3 (NKJV)
Fleshly living is self-seeking and divisive — driven by comparison, competition, and complaint.
2. The Turning Point: Confronted by Pain and the End of Self
“Before I was afflicted I went astray, but now I keep Your word.”
— Psalm 119:67 (NKJV)
Pain often exposes our self-sufficiency and redirects us toward God’s sufficiency.
“Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.”
— Matthew 5:3 (NKJV)
Spiritual poverty — the recognition that we cannot save or sustain ourselves — is the first step to true transformation.
3. The Transformation: From Saul to Paul
“But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother’s womb and called me through His grace, to reveal His Son in me…”
— Galatians 1:15–16 (NKJV)
Saul, like the old self, was zealous in religion but blind to the Spirit. Only when the light of Christ revealed truth did he begin walking by faith, not sight.
“If anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.”
— 2 Corinthians 5:17 (NKJV)
The old man—defined by pride, blame, and self-justification—is put to death, and a new nature begins to live by the Spirit.
4. The Maturing Spirit: From Control to Cooperation
“For as we have many members in one body, but all the members do not have the same function, so we, being many, are one body in Christ, and individually members of one another.”
— Romans 12:4–5 (NKJV)
No longer a solo act — the mature believer learns the joy of being part of something larger: the body of Christ.
“Let nothing be done through selfish ambition or conceit, but in lowliness of mind let each esteem others better than himself.”
— Philippians 2:3 (NKJV)
Maturity is found in humility — serving and rejoicing in others’ gifts, not competing with them.
5. The New Motivation: Love and Service
“By this all will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another.”
— John 13:35 (NKJV)
Love to the point of tears hurting when others hurt. Sooo this is the evidence of rebirth and maturity. It transforms personal pain & joy into shared joy, self-preservation into self-giving.
“Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.”
— Galatians 6:2 (NKJV)
True spiritual adulthood expresses Christ’s compassion through empathy and service.
6. The Result: From Maintenance to Fruitfulness
“Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in Me.”
— John 15:4 (NKJV)
Maintenance becomes fruitfulness when rooted in Christ — not striving to produce, but abiding to overflow.
“The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control.”
— Galatians 5:22–23 (NKJV)
Spiritual maturity manifests not in strength or intellect, but in the visible fruit of divine character.
7. The Goal: Christ Fully Formed in Us
“My little children, for whom I labor in birth again until Christ is formed in you.”
— Galatians 4:19 (NKJV)
God’s goal is not to make us DIY religiously good enough , but to conform us to Christ’s likeness — to transform selfishness into shared sonship.
“And we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as by the Spirit of the Lord.”
— 2 Corinthians 3:18 (NKJV)
That’s beautifully said — and profoundly true. In a world that shifts daily, where truth bends and morality blurs, the constancy of God is our anchor. Scripture repeatedly contrasts God’s unchanging nature and higher wisdom with the instability and short-sightedness of human understanding.
