No baby carrots in a jar

Hebrews 6:9-12   9 Though we speak in this way, yet in your case, beloved, we feel sure of better things–things that belong to salvation. 10 For God is not unjust so as to overlook your work and the love that you have shown for his name in serving the saints, as you still do. 11 And we desire each one of you to show the same earnestness to have the full assurance of hope until the end, 12 so that you may not be sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and patience inherit the promises.

The writer of Hebrews had just pointed to the fact of the needed maturity in our faith. He had pointed to the need of a faith and hope that grows in Christ. He had pointed for the need to mature as adults in our faith, not to rest on the “spiritual milk” as infants and toddlers do, but to feed on solid foods and grow up.5:12 For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you again the first 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 unskilled in the word of righteousness, for he is a babe. 14 But solid food belongs to those who are of full age, that is, those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil. We must return to these truths often, they are a bedrock of our faith. We must grasp grace, repentance, and forgiveness found only in Christ, but that is not where our faith stops. It must mature to begin to understand the spiritual things that revolve around us every day that we do not see. There is an entire other world in the unseen that affects the seen and felt every single day. This understanding comes with time cultivated in God’s Word and prayer every, single, day. This discernment is only granted by Him with maturity. Toddlers cannot handle this level of faith; it would create fear and likely fleeing. It is only in the mature that this is granted. With it comes much greater faith, hope, and love; but with it comes greater responsibility also.

The closer you draw to God, the more he reveals himself to you. The more He reveals himself to you, the greater your awe of him. The greater your awe of Him, the more you realize how much you need him. This is the cycle that He desires; that you seek Him out of a heart that has grown intimate with him. Mark 12:30 And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength.’ This is the first commandment. This is how you grow in your faith; you seek God every day with every thing you have got. He will reward those that seek him! Proverbs 8:17 I love those who love me, And those who seek me diligently will find me. When He begins to open more truths of his Word to you, you begin to want to know more. An expectancy comes with it; hope grows in it; faith grows in it; you mature with it; He becomes glorified through it all. Amen.