Changing Obligations

“When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.” In this passage (1 Cor. 13:11), the apostle Paul refers to two states of life: childhood and manhood. Although he is speaking primarily from a spiritual perspective, of our interests moving from earthly things to the heavenly, there is a connection here to real life too. When we were children, many others had obligations toward us, including our parents,...