What are You Eating: Milk or Meat?

During my last trip to Houston I was able to visit one of my aunts who just gave birth to a beautiful baby girl. During the course of my stay with the family, the baby got hungry and my aunt asked me to help her feed the child. She got the food ready, handed it to me, and  I proceeded to feed the infant.
I'm sure as you read the above scene you more than likely envisioned me feeding the child a bottle that contained infant formula and not a steak and potato meal. Why? Most likely because you understood that I was feeding a new born child and babies have not matured up to the stage of eating solid food. If I wrote the above scene but changed to details to me preparing a meal for my father, you would not imagine me serving my father a bottle. Why? Again because you understand that my father, a grown man, would require heavier food to sustain him. As Christians, the same principles apply to us. After feeding on milk for a while, God expects us to grow and start eating solid food. We cannot remain Christian babies forever.

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"For everyone that uses milk is unskillful in the word of righteousness: for he is a babe. But strong meat belongeth to them that are of full age, even those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil."- Hebrews 5: 13-14

The Illusion of Freedom

The United States of America will be celebrating its Independence Day on July 4th, but my heart aches for this country because we are living under the illusion of freedom. The news that have plagued this country in the last couple of days is a mere reflection of bondage that the world in general has voluntarily entered. With our own laws we've decreed and have accepted to be slaves to sin. Through the Lord Jesus Christ we have been given dominion over sin (Romans 6:!4), but the world has forfeited that power. I understand the world that does not know the saving grace of Jesus Christ is still a slave to sin, but what I cannot understand is why Christians are still bonded? Christians. Followers of Jesus Christ. Those who identify with the death and the resurrection of Jesus. It is an oxymoron to be Christian and yet be a slave, yet so many of us today have fallen from the faith and we don't even know it! We no longer mirror Christ. There is nothing about the 21st century Christian that screams set apart or different and I begin to wonder, Lord how did we get like this? How did we become a people who no longer reverence Your Word? How did we become lukewarm? The Holy Spirit answered and said I commanded you to" Watch, stand fast in the faith, be courageous, be strong" (1 Corinthians 16:13), but the people turned a deaf ear to My Words. To experience the liberty God has given us, we must go back to obeying the Word of God.

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