Tuesday, October 23, 2012

Do you grow?


Just about every chapter in the New Testament talks about growth in a positive or negative fashion. For instance, in 2 Peter 3:18, the Bible says, "But grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ." That's a positive exhortation. However, in Hebrews 5:12, it says, "For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need that one teach you again which be the first principles of the oracles of God; and are become such as have need of milk, and not of strong meat." That verse is a negative chastisement for not growing.

We spend an enormous amount of time and money to be fit. My neighbor trains rigorously so she can run half-marathons. But I wonder how much better off she would be if she were to train for spiritual well-being and eternal realities.

When you think of it, it only takes about eight weeks to starve to death. A starving person has two options: they can either have no food or they can refuse to eat of it. In some places in the world, spiritual food is hard to come by, but in America, we all have fantastic opportunities with very little effort involved to be fed spiritually. No one is too far from the assemblies of the Lord's people and virtually everyone has at least one copy of the Bible in their home or multiple copies available online. The question is how hard will you work to do it? Will you "desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby" (1 Peter 2:2)?

Kyle Campbell

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