Milk or Meat? What are You Serving?

As I was contemplating the passage in Hebrews 5:11-6:1, which speaks on the maturity of the believer, I began to consider how it relates to the family. As parents we see our children born! This is an amazing time of joy as is seeing someone come to a personal relationship with Christ! As parents we nurture, and care for our child, we begin to feed them milk. Now, as a father and husband... if all I had to nourish me was milk I would be very hungry and wanting more. Same goes with our child. As they grow they desire more! Soon we are slowly feeding them from what we eat in bites they can handle, and before we know it they are eating steak and potatoes with a fork and knife on their own. If they are a teenager they are probably asking for more!

So how is it then that we can all understand this basic concept of getting our kids to eat food on their own yet in the area of the scriptures we seem to let them get by with just milk? So often we make sure they know how they are sinners (this needs very little explanation) and how they can have a relationship with Christ. Once they come to a personal understanding of this, we as parents feel better and feel we have done our job. Now it is time for the church to teach them more.

I tend to think that the number one reason we fail to go deeper with our own kids is that we ourselves don't know how to be more mature in the Word. The writer of Hebrews challenges the readers that they should be teaching by now. These believers not only needed to be taught, but they needed to be taught again things they had already learned! Let me encourage you to develop yourself as a mature believer and then teach your own children to do the same. What an amazing thing it would be to see our young people be able to take God's Word and be able to study it for themselves and apply its teaching their own lives!

Please leave some thoughts on this topic of how you have worked to help your child develop in the area of feeding themselves spiritually. We are all in this together!