About this we have much to say, and it is hard to explain, since you have become dull of hearing. 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 5:11-14

There were times with our kids and now our grandkids when I would like to freeze time (at least temporarily) because of how enjoyable the moment is at the time. But what if our kids or grandkids never grew up, never learned something new, never matured at all?

I know it sounds kind of ridiculous, but that is exactly the difficult point the writer of Hebrews makes when he states –

“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.“

In his first letter to the Corinthians, Paul said that as he matured he put aside childish things. Paul grew up!

Christ has done a great thing for each of us when we repent at the cross, but we shouldn’t stop there. There are battles to win, there is a deeper relationship to cultivate, and there is Spiritual Maturity ahead if we put aside the milk and pick up the fork and knife.