“Pushing onto Maturity”

BIBLE READING: Hebrews 5    

            In Hebrews 2, we learn that we must pay close attention to those fundamentals so that we do not allow ourselves to drift away from the Truth.  However, we cannot afford to only focus on those fundamentals.  We must also dedicate ourselves to constantly push for maturity.  The writer of Hebrews tells us “For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you again the basic principles of the oracles of God. You need milk, not solid food, for everyone who lives on milk is unskilled in the word of righteousness, since he is a child. But solid food is for the mature, for those who have their powers of discernment trained by constant practice to distinguish good from evil.” (Hebrews 5:12-14).  Although the basics are important, if we are to grow in our faith we must push on to maturity.  Imagine a parent who is raising a newborn on milk, now imagine that same newborn as a ten-year-old middle-schooler.  You would not expect to see that mother coming to school at lunch time and taking that child in her arms and place a bottle of milk in his mouth.  If that were the case, we would look at that child and assume that something was badly wrong.  Christ looks at us the same way, if we have been a Christian for ten years and we are still having to be bottle fed on the basics of the Word, something is wrong.  While we must maintain the basic of our faith, we must also push on to maturity as we seek to crave more knowledge of God’s Word.