Hebrews 5:12 For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you have need again for someone to teach you the elementary principles of the oracles of God, and you have come to need milk and not solid food. 13 For everyone who partakes only of milk is not accustomed to the word of righteousness, for he is an infant. 14 But solid food is for the mature, who because of practice have their senses trained to discern good and evil.
This excerpt was taken from a devotional on Christian Leadership by A.W. Tozer:
There are Christians who grow up and have no relish for anything spiritually advanced. They're preoccupied with their first lessons. The average church is a school with only one grade and that is the first one. These Christians never expect to get beyond that and they don't want to hear a man very long who wants to take them beyond that. If their pastor insists they do their homework and get ready for the next grade, they begin to pray that the Lord will call "our dear brother" somewhere else. . . . All he's trying to do is prepare them for another grade, but that church is dedicated to the first grade, and the first grade is where it's going to remain.
Paul said some of them went up into the second grade and gave it up, and said, "It's too hard here," and they went back to the first.
"How long have you been in first grade, Junior?"
"Twelve years.". . .
Paul said, "forgetting those things which are behind . . . I press toward the mark" (Philippians 3:13-14). There was a man not satisfied with the first grade.
My prayer is that all the saints everywhere would daily seek to grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord, Master, and Savior who alone has the words of life which are contained within the page of our bibles, with the end goal being to participate with the Holy Spirit in our sanctification so that we might become more obedient servants and disciples thus honoring and glorifying God with our lives which have been bought with a price.
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