Expectations

“You have been Christians a long time now, and you ought to be teaching others, but instead you have dropped back to the place where you need someone to teach you all over again the very first principles in God’s Word. You are like babies who can drink only milk, not old enough for solid food. And when a person is still living on milk it shows he isn’t very far along in the Christian life, and doesn’t know much about the difference between right and wrong.

He is still a baby Christian!”

Hebrews 5:12-13 (TLB)

 

 

 

We expect Spring to follow Winter.

We expect that after nine months the pregnant woman will give birth.

We expect to pay taxes.

God has expectations too.

One of them is that His children will mature spiritually.

We expect to change a messy diaper or two or three or...on a two month old.

An otherwise healthy twenty year old – not so much!

We would find that odd.

So too the Child of God who does not grow up!

When our sanctuary is nothing more than a nursery something is wrong.

The family of God can expect to have newborns.

But imagine a roomful of infants with no adults in sight.

That would not represent a family.

Nor would it be an accurate picture of the family of God.

A family has adults and children.

God’s family has newborns (the immature) but it also will have those spiritually mature who care for the infants.

 Time used to care for those who should be capable of caring for themselves in so many ways is not good stewardship of time.

Do you have your big boy pants on yet?