Week 2 Day 2

Heb. 5
"11 We have much to say about this, but it is hard to make it clear to you because you no longer try to understand. 12 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! 13 Anyone who lives on milk, being still an infant, is not acquainted with the teaching about righteousness. 14 But solid food is for the mature, who by constant use have trained themselves to distinguish good from evil."
 
The pressures of life have a way of taking over our lives.  Our employer or our business demands attention, hours, and commitment.  Of course, our bills need to be paid, so we give it our time, attention, and commitment.  If you are married your spouse demands attention, and rightly so.  If you have kids, they have baseball practice, band practice, piano lessons, school, etc.   If you are in school, you have to keep up with assignments and maybe you have a job or extra curricular activities as well.  It’s easy to set aside reading and studying the Bible in order to keep up with everything else going on in your life.  But is that the right decision? 
 
When we study God’s word we invest not just in this life and honoring God with this life, but in our eternal life.  Our spiritual growth is not only good for eternity, it is good for our flourishing in this world.  It gives us meaning a purpose in our daily lives as well.   The question is, are we living on milk or are we growing so we can eat steak. 
 
There is nothing quite like a good steak dinner.  So what does it take to eat steak?  Read the text again, it gives you the answers.  Be consistent, become acquainted with what the Bible teaches about righteousness, and training yourself to distinguish between what is good and what is not. 
 
Here is a video about 4 basic principles in studying the Bible!