The Four Stages Of Life

1. Those that do not know God's love, hope, direction, protection are on there own lost serving themselves and on there way to eternity without God. God is not going to force anyone to love Him or force them to go to heaven.

2. Once someone repents of there sins and accepts Jesus they are truly born again, but they are a baby, a child. Children cry for what they want, throw temper tantrums when they do not get what they want, because they are young and have not grown up.
3. As a person stops thinking about themselves with God's help and begins to grow up, they starts thinking about others, friends, co-workers, spouse, children etc  they move into the 3rd stage of Loving Others.
4. The final stage is where a person with God's help starts thinking about what God wants and is trying to seek His will and obey Him no matter what, this is the Walk Of Faith. This is when you are in over your head, trusting Him who will never fail. 
~You can look at anyone's life and see what stage they are in, Lost, Thinking About Themselves, Thinking About Others or Thinking About God. "Master, which is the great commandment in the law? Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets. Matthew 22 v 36-40 (King James Version) Biblegateway.com