Day 318 – Learning and growing takes constant practice.
Today’s Reading: Hebrews 3 – 8
“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 in milk is unskilled in the word of righteousness, since he is a child. But solid food is for the mature, for those who have powers of discernment trained by constant practice to distinguish good from evil.” Hebrews 5: 12 – 14
20 years of reading through the Word. 20 years of still not getting it all right. 20 years and still learning something new every day.
When I was a child, I learned the main Bible stories: Adam and Eve, Noah, Abraham, Joseph, Moses, David, Solomon, and Jesus, but the others….the in-between, I’ve learned these in my constant reading, my early morning devotions. Job, Esther, the Songs of Ascent, the women in the sand, the stone that wasn’t thrown, all of these have taught me huge life lessons. They’ve taught me how to love, perseverance, kindness, truth, justice, courage, and all in Christ. In the past few years I’ve learned to let go, to say no to good things when their are better things to say yes to, to listen before I speak, that even if I don’t agree with someone’s opinion or lifestyle I can still show them love, that good Christian’s can be wrong, that once saved always saved, but forgiveness, grace and mercy is always offered, and always way opinions under the Word of God. But I’m not done yet, God’s not finished with me. So I’m going to keep going.
Im going to keep searching the Word every morning, Im going to keep seeking Him. His Word is Alive, and when I stand on the simple principles and strive for more, He continues to reveal more of Himself to me.
“For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart.” Hebrews 4:12
There is always a reason to keep learning and growing, to constantly go to His Word. As I often say, if you aren’t growing your dying, and I want to keep living until God calls me home.
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