Bible Diary - Hebrews 5:11-14
July 6, 2008
I have long since adopted these cautionary words as my own, especially at times like the present when I dare expound on portions of God’s word. Teaching from “God’s utterances” is a solemn undertaking, realizing that the need to go back to the milk of the Gospel is always present.
The Need to Move on to Maturity
5:11 On this topic we have much to say and it is difficult to explain, since you have become sluggish in hearing. 5:12 For though you should in fact be teachers by this time, you need someone to teach you the beginning elements of God’s utterances. You have gone back to needing milk, not solid food. 5:13 For everyone who lives on milk is inexperienced in the message of righteousness, because he is an infant. 5:14 But solid food is for the mature, whose perceptions are trained by practice to discern both good and evil.
Misgivings aside, I know I am gaining experience in the message of righteousness with each reading of the Word. As the translators of the New King James Version put it, I count myself as among “…those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil.” (5:14)
I offer these stumbling fragments of thought to whoever might read these words with the prayer that, together, we may take a few more steps along the path to Christian maturity. We share the common need to become more “experienced in the message of righteousness.”
Dave, always needing to have his senses exercised.
-sdg-
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