When Ye Ought To Be Teachers

Dear class,

Today's readings are taken from Proverbs 30,31 and Hebrews 5.

Sisters! Do read and put into your heart Pro 31:10-31! It's both a ode to womanhood and a high calling. Keep it close to you and you will do well indeed! (31:29,30)

Hebrews 5 is where Paul begins to highlight the superiority of Christ over the Aaronic priesthood, which we shall examine further as we go into chapter 7.

The last few verses is kind of like a side track, where Paul thought it necessary to interject a rebuke.
Heb 5:11 Of whom we have many things to say, and hard to be uttered, seeing ye are dull of hearing.
Heb 5:12  For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need that one teach you again which be the first principles of the oracles of God; and are become such as have need of milk, and not of strong meat.
Heb 5:13  For every one that useth milk is unskilful in the word of righteousness: for he is a babe.
Heb 5:14  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.

The point of focus here is the fact that, yes, all of us will have been babes in Christ, needing to be fed of spiritual milk (1Pe 2:2), but just as growing children, we need to move on to other forms of nutrition. One cannot survive on mother's milk his whole life! In fact, even within mother's milk itself, God has so wonderfully made our body that the composition of the milk actually changes through the course of the baby's growth to suit it's changing nutritional needs!

Do we all then have to be teachers? No. Paul is saying "when for the time ye OUGHT to be teachers" Meaning, when you should have attained the spiritual maturity to qualify as teachers. What the passage also says is that there is a time when we are "unskilled" but we need to grow and mature so that we are able to become "skilled". Growing in the faith means we need to make fewer and fewer mistakes as we improve in discernment. Also implied is the fact that we need to put in effort to grow and not stagnate in our Christian life. Not only we do God and ourselves a disservice, we will also adversely affect the new babes that see our nonchalant, apathetic attitude.

Let us be exhorted and reminded to constantly strive for spiritual growth and maturity and not remain "status quo" or worse, regress in our spiritual status.

The Lord bless our day ahead.

In Him
Paul

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But exhort one another daily, while it is called To day; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin. ~ Hebrews 3:13
Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God. And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus. ~ Philippians 4:6,7