Maturity is a matter of the enlargement of capacity. You must allow God to give you time to suffer beyond measure; then your capacity will be enlarged... It is important for us to receive God's arrangement in the circumstances. Holy Spirit. To escape God's arrangement just one time is to lose an opportunity to have our capacity enlarged… A believer can never be the same after passing through suffering… For this reason, when believers are passing through suffering, they must pay attention and the the y must realize that maturity in life is the sum total of receiving the discipline of the Holy Spirit. People may see a person who has matured in life, but they cannot see the accumulated discipline.