Today's readings in our Spoken Word Bible Reading Plan really blend together! Look at Hebrews 5:11-14:
11 Concerning this we have much to say which is hard to explain, since you have become dull in your [spiritual] hearing and sluggish [even slothful in achieving spiritual insight]. 12 For even though by this time you ought to be teaching others, you actually need someone to teach you over again the very first principles of God’s Word. You have come to need milk, not solid food. 13 For everyone who continues to feed on milk is obviously inexperienced and unskilled in the doctrine of righteousness (of conformity to the divine will in purpose, thought, and action), for he is a mere infant [not able to talk yet]! 14 But solid food is for full-grown men, for those whose senses and mental faculties are trained by practice to discriminate and distinguish between what is morally good and noble and what is evil and contrary either to divine or human law.
Notice the underlined portions of these verses. These involve expectations of the growth that these believers SHOULD HAVE been experiencing! BUT, because they were NOT DOERS of the Word that they heard, that Word did them no good! They needed to be putting the Word that they were learning into practice immediately so that the knowledge they obtained would have been built right into them and they would never have lost any of it! Now let's look at Isaiah 55:1-3:
Wait and listen, everyone who is thirsty! Come to the waters; and he who has no money, come, buy and eat! Yes, come, buy [priceless, spiritual] wine and milk without money and without price [simply for the self-surrender that accepts the blessing]. 2 Why do you spend your money for that which is not bread, and your earnings for what does not satisfy? Hearken diligently to Me, and eat what is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness [the profuseness of spiritual joy]. 3 Incline your ear [submit and consent to the divine will] and come to Me; hear, and your soul will revive; and I will make an everlasting covenant or league with you, even the sure mercy (kindness, goodwill, and compassion) promised to David.
It is SO exciting that all that we will ever need has been provided for us by the death, burial and resurrection of JESUS of NAZARETH! All that He provided for us is available to us by His Word and by Holy Spirit Who is our Teacher! Don't walk into Heaven at the end of THIS life having left your 'plate' here filled with 'food' which you never ate! Be a faithful DOER of the Word of God and you will have KINGDOM of GOD results, right here and right now! AMEN! Here is Hillsong with "Your Word":
Shalom in Him!
