Word for the day by Christian Education Forum

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 Hosanna . Jesus Christ, The Lord of Peace   

Maturing in the Word of God
Hebrews 5 :12-14,6'1=20
Hebrews 5:12-14 “ In fact, though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you the elementary truths of God’s word all over again. You need milk, not solid food!  Anyone who lives on milk, being still an infant, is not acquainted with the teaching about righteousness. But solid food is for the mature, who by constant use have trained themselves to distinguish good from evil.”

Devotion
The above Bible verses were written almost two thousand years ago, but they seem to instruct and warn us even today. The author of Hebrews challenged the first century Christians and told them that they ought to be teachers by ‘this time’, but he concluded that they still needed someone to again teach them the basic truths of God’s word. Most of us were born and brought up as Christians. We pride ourselves for being Christians for decades and for being descendants of Christians for centuries. However, we could be in the same boat as the Hebrews were at that time. Generally, we begin learning the word of God from early childhood during our Sunday School years. One would expect that as our capacity to learn and comprehend increases as we get older, our grasp of the Bible would considerably be more. As we search our hearts,  can each one of us say that we have a much better grasp of the Bible? There comes a time for every Christian to take responsibility for learning God’s word in depth and also for teaching it to the next generation. The Bible portion for today asks us not to remain stagnant, but to grow in faith by the constant use of God’s word and to train ourselves to distinguish good from evil. We need to move beyond the elementary teachings about Christ and gain a mature understanding and deeper relationship with Christ and avoid the possible danger of falling away from the truth of God’s word.  
 
Prayer
Lord God, thank you for your Word. Trusting in your grace and mercy, we pray you grant us the wisdom to understand your word. Please help us to live our daily lives to bring glory to your holy name, Amen.
 
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY
“Being confident of this, that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ.” ( Philippians 1:6 )

Varughese Thomas (Appu) 
Long Island Mar Thoma Church, New York

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