Today’s Reading: Hebrews 5:1 – 6:3

When we choose not to grow, we do not just remain stagnant. We begin slowly drifting away. Our relationship with God needs to be current – not just “current” as in happening at the present time, but “current” as in a body of water steadily MOVING FORWARD in a definite direction. God has a plan for us to be used for His purposes and we need to allow Him to refine us and make us into exactly who He created us to be. Listen to the writer’s frustration with the complacency of the believers.

There is much more we would like to say about this, but it is difficult to explain, especially since you are spiritually dull and don’t seem to listen. You have been believers so long now that you ought to be teaching others. Instead, you need someone to teach you again the basic things about God’s word. You are like babies who need milk and cannot eat solid food. For someone who lives on milk is still an infant and doesn’t know how to do what is right. Solid food is for those who are mature, who through training have the skill to recognize the difference between right and wrong. – Hebrews 5:11-14

HAVE I BECOME STAGNANT IN MY RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD?

Father, we stop right here and ask for you to reveal to us ANY way in which we may be guilty of these same accusations. Have we become spiritually dull? Have we stopped listening to what you are saying? Are we comfortably stuck on “milk” when you are ready to MOVE US FORWARD into a deeper knowledge of you?

Lord, help us to grow and become mature in our understanding. Train us to recognize the difference between right and wrong. May the study of your word be alive and active, sharper than the sharpest two-edged sword, cutting between soul and spirit, between joint and marrow. Expose our innermost thoughts and desires and refine us into a tool to be used by you (4:12).

So let us stop going over the basic teachings about Christ again and again. Let us go on instead and become mature in our understanding. Surely we don’t need to start again with the fundamental importance of repenting from evil deeds and placing our faith in God. You don’t need further instruction about baptisms, the laying on of hands, the resurrection of the dead, and eternal judgment. And so, God willing, we will MOVE FORWARD to further understanding. – Hebrews 6:1-3

AM I READY TO GROW DEEPER IN MY UNDERSTANDING OF GOD AND HIS WORD?

God is calling us to go deep; the Lord is pulling us towards a greater understanding of who He is and what He wants to do in us and through us. He created us to hunger for more — more of all He wants to reveal to us. He wants us to love Him with all of our heart, all of our soul, all our mind and all our strength (Mark 12:30). He wants us to intentionally be a student of His word, daily hungry for wisdom and understanding. Let’s take time to soak in His scripture and sit at His feet this morning as we drink our morning coffee.