📖 I have a lot more to say about this, but it is hard to get it across to you since you’ve picked up this bad habit of not listening. By this time you ought to be teachers yourselves, yet here I find you need someone to sit down with you and go over the basics on God again, starting from square one—baby’s milk, when you should have been on solid food long ago! Milk is for beginners, inexperienced in God’s ways; solid food is for the mature, who have some practice in telling right from wrong.
—Hebrews 5:12-14 The Message
God wants us to grow and mature in the things of God. We should get to a place in our lives where we are teachers and not just students. We should have mastered the basics and the fundamentals of spiritual things. We never “arrive”, but our aim should be to learn and grow more. In the natural world, we expect children to be promoted to a higher grade by the end of the school year. We expect the first grader to be promoted to second grade. We expect the second grader to be promoted to third grade, and on and on until they graduate from middle school. We expect children to develop until they graduate from high school. If a child stays in the third grade for three years, something is wrong. We may take the child to a specialist. We check to see if there is a learning disability. We do all that we can to figure out how to get the child to be promoted to the next grade. Well, God doesn’t expect us to stay children when it comes to the things of the Spirit. He expects us to mature and grow. After a while, we should no longer be children. We should get to a place where we are no longer consuming milk, but we are feeding on the “meat” of God’s Word. We should be experienced in God’s ways. We are no longer considered beginners; we have advanced. We eventually get to the place where we are no longer the same. God expects us to go from glory to glory.
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