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 NLT
As I was praying this morning God was moving in my heart and made me remember this verse right above.
I started praying that we would no longer be spiritually dull.
That we have been believers for so long that we would stop drinking milk and being baby Christian’s and instead GROW into our faith and become full functioning hungry adults.
After praying I open up my bible to read chapter 5 of hebrews (I read chapter 4 yesterday) and BAM!
That exact verse that God put on my heart in prayer was in that chapter.
Talk about the Holy Spirit leading and guiding me this morning.
I want to share with you this morning, if you have been a believer in Jesus Christ for a long time and haven’t matured at all spiritually, I want to encourage you, examine your heart and your actions.
What are you doing to grow into a mature believer?
Going to church?
That’s awesome! I know we need to be apart of the body of Christ and not to forsake assembly with other believers! (Hebrews 10:24-25) however my friend, that simply is not enough.
Think of it like this… in a relationship (whether it be marriage or dating) while you are pursuing eachother (because there must be a mutual pursuit other wise its called stalking) you both want to talk to eachother daily, and even hourly for that matter.
You want to know everything about eachother and want to go from knowing nothing about eachother to finishing eachother sentances.
You desire that level of connection!!
Some people date for YEARS and never reach that level.
While others can date for 3 months and have more intimacy and transparency between eachother then a married couple of 40 years.
Why is that? It’s because they came together humbly and open.
Ready to give it all and receive it all. Because they made it a PRIORITY to get to know each other inside and out as much aspossible.
Because they were willing to sacrifice other things to make MORE time to spend with that person. Instead of spending their time playing golf or time hanging out with the girls, they decided they will sacrifice that time to pursue eachother.
So this couple who was deep at 3 months is now 10 years into their relationship are on a much deeper journey then the couple on the 50 yr relationship.
Let me break it down…
It doesn’t matter how LONG you’re a believer of Jesus.
Unless you seek him FIRST every single day, and sacrifice your time of doing what you “want” to be doing or “are used to be doing” and instead spending that time investing into a relationship with God, you won’t experience that depth to the relationship. Part of the benefit of spending that time with God to get on a deeper level is that he will bring you spiritual, mental, and physical health.
It will bring healing to your body. It will bring change to your ways.
Because God wants your heart. Not your “front” that you put on around church people.
So stop being an immature Christian.
GROW UP!
Open your bible. Read it. Every question you have, problem you face, the answer is in God’s word. The solution is in the bible. Others before you faced it too.
Mary Smith Creative 