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TIME TO GROW UP

You have been Christians a long time now, and you ought to be teaching others. Instead, you need someone to teach you again the basic things a beginner must learn about the Scriptures. You are like babies who drink only milk and cannot eat solid food. And a person who is living on milk isn't very far along in the Christian life and doesn't know much about doing what is right. Solid food is for those who are mature, who have trained themselves to recognize the difference between right and wrong and then do what is right. – Hebrews 5:12-14 (NLT)

            What would we think if we saw a mother feeding her teenager baby food out of a jar? We would instantly discern that there was a problem. Beyond looking incredibly silly, we know that a young man or woman of this age could not possibly be receiving the nutritional requirements that their body demands.

            The same is true for those who have been Christians for years and are still attempting to find their spiritual needs met by consuming only the most basic teachings of the Bible. There comes a point in time that we move beyond the ABCs of Christianity and begin digging into the deeper riches of God's Word. When we do this, not only do we benefit personally, but we are able to lead others into the deeper Christian life by teaching them how to do the same.

PRAYER THOUGHT: Father, grant me the desire to go deeper into Your Word. Teach me to teach others.