July 11 - Grow Up!

July 11 - Hebrews 6:1-12 - Grow Up!

It is time to go beyond that first step, to move into maturity. Dead acts of faith, things that have no meaning need to be set aside. We need to quit doing these things and then going back and repenting of them. At some point, the foundation of our lives needs to be more than that - faith in God, baptism, laying on of hands, resurrection of the dead and eternal judgment. God wants us to move beyond ourselves to something bigger, something more powerful. He wants us to move into releationship with Him!

Hebrews 6:4-6 speaks of those who have fallen away. You can't become a Christian again. No wait, that's not what I mean. What this is saying is that you don't actually stop being a Christian, you may fall away to immaturity. Get back on the road and move toward maturity. You don't need to become born again ... again.

We see in Hebrews 6:7-8 that those who choose to stay immature and produce thorns and thistles are worthless to the kingdom of God. There is danger in these actions. God will not tolerate those of us who choose to become Christians and then set it aside for the more exciting things of life.

There are so many ways that we attempt to move away from God. He is just and will remember all of the good things we have done and the love that we have shown him (Hebrews 6:10), but just as we learned in previous chapters of Hebrews, we can't allow ourselves to not pay attention (Hebrews 2:1-4), harden our hearts (Hebrews 3:7-4:13), be slow to learn (Hebrews 5:11) and now, we can not become lazy (Hebrews 6:12).

There are things that will be set before us as we traverse the road that leads to eternal life. We must always be alert!