Are You Tossed Back and Forth by the Waves?

About 10 years ago I experienced the "power of the sea" riding on a cruise ship in a storm with 40 foot waves.  That big ol ship felt like a little bitty cork bobbing around in that overpowering storm.

So what is Paul talking about in Ephesians 4:14?
" Then we will no longer be infants, tossed back and forth by the waves, and blown here and there by every wind of teaching and by the cunning and craftiness of men in their evil scheming."

Paul is urging his hearers to "mature in the Lord".  Grow up... don't be an infant any longer!!!  As long as we are immature in our faith, Paul suggests that we will be like infants.

And if we are not mature in the Lord?  We are just going from one thing to another.  Up and down like the waves. We will be out of control...and will be under the control of worldly influences.  Overpowered by every teaching that comes along.

So how do we do grow up in the Lord?  Paul says, we need to take off the "old self"  and put on Christ...the "new self".  When we put on Christ...we begin to become steady in life....steady in the boat. I want to go through the storms of life...steady and calm...not tossed about by the "world."