Desiring to mature in Christ in Hebrews 5:11-14

Why do you refuse to grow up?
We have a constant theme in our home, we are constantly having to remind Jeremiah (5) that he has not act like Judah (3) because he is older and more mature. When asking Jeremiah why he did something to his little brother he will inevitably say that “Judah did it to him first and he was just paying him back.” We must remind Jeremiah that he should know better because he is older and more mature and that a three-year-old doesn’t always understand certain things. Jeremiah doesn’t like these talks because deep down inside he wants to act the way he wants to act and not be held more accountable as he gets older and more mature. Do you know that many in the church are just like Jeremiah? They have been in a relationship with Jesus for a while, but they don’t want to mature and grow up, they want to keep acting like they did when they got saved. In our verses today, the author asks the question of the recipients why they are still acting like babies in Christ. The author says by now you should be teaching others about Christ but instead you are having to be continually retaught simple things over and over.
Why is it that many in the church live their lives as if they are a perpetual five-year-old having to be continually reminded that they need to grow up? Paul compares to the diet of a child and essential says that babies drink milk but as you grew you start to eat solid food. The same is true of our spiritual growth if we never get past the milk of God’s word at start feasting on the meat then we aren’t going to grow. There are only so many times you can hear the story of David and Goliath, Jonah and the whale, and the walls of Jericho falling. The Bible full of meat but we must discipline ourselves to dive in and read it regularly and not just our favorite stories, all of it. There is no growth in the church because the church refuses to grow up and make reading the Word of God a part of their daily routine. They want people to spoon feed them what the Bible says instead of them taking the time to read and study it for themselves. They take their bottle once or twice a week when they go to church and then the rest of the time, they starve their spirits of the bread of life (the word). Don’t fall into the trap of having to constantly being retaught the same things over and over, be mature. Read and study the word of God and begin to teach others what you have learned.

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