solid food

Hebrews 5:12 You have been believers so long now that you ought to be teaching others.

     Instead, you need someone to teach you again the basic things about God's word.

You are like babies who need milk and cannot eat solid food.

13 For someone who lives on milk is still an infant and doesn't know how to do what is right.

14 Solid food is for those who are mature, who through training have the skill to recognize the difference between right and wrong.


So, what is the"solid food"?

I think a concerted effort to read ALL of the Bible on a regular basis. Trust me, God will mess with us in ways we cannot imagine. We will grow or die trying if we read all the different parts of the Bible.

Another way is equally obvious - talk to God- or maybe more importantly, let God talk to us.
Now, it will take a while & some practice to learn to listen, but it can be done. If I can do it, you can do it.
Just ask Him a simple question - "do You have anything You wanna say to me?"
One word of warning: we shouldn't ask that question unless we're prepared for the answer.

One more way to embrace the solid food of living & following Him is to ask Him to bring hurting people into our lives that we can help connect with God.
Trust me on this: if we ask Him to do that, He will bring crazy people into our lives. He'll bring people we don't know how to begin with.
But if God truly brings someone into our lives, He provides us with His strength & wisdom to deal with them.
And we don't have to be great theologians - all we have to do is listen to people - that's all they really want.

Think about these 3 things, 3 ways to start encountering the solid food of being a Christ follower.

Just a thought...