I Corinthians 13:11 is “When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put aside childish things.”

The Greek word for ‘reasoned’ is ‘logizomai’ and means to calculate and form judgments. A child’s ‘reasoning’ is usually reactive, hasty and impulsive. It is not necessarily evil but it would usually be ‘simple’.  

Proverbs 22:3 states “The prudent sees danger and hides himself, but the simple go on and suffer for it.”

And Proverbs 14:15 states “The simple believes everything, but the prudent gives thought to his steps.”

The discipleship of children includes teaching and training them not to be simple but rather to be discerning and ‘prudent’. Boy to man means learning to calculate and form judgments. 

Am I a ‘prudent’ man?