Today is the day for straight questions. Questions that will make you think. Questions that will make some feel a little uncomfortable.

If someone came knocking on your door today and ask you to lead him or her to Jesus, would you be able to do it?

I suspect most people would answer “yes”.

If someone came to you today and ask you to explain how the forgiveness of sin works, would you know what to say?

If someone came to you today and ask you about baptism with the Holy Spirit, would you be able to explain it to that person?

If someone came to you today, asking you to explain God’s involvement in the suffering in the world, would you be able to unpack it bit by bit for him or her?

And this last question might be unfair, because it’s not an easy one. But still, how deep is your faith? How much of what you believe do you really understand? Do you know and understand the pillars on which your faith in God is built?

Sadly, the next verse applies to many of us: ¹²By this time you ought to be teachers yourselves, yet here I find you need someone to sit down with you and go over the basics on God again, starting from square one …

Many of us should have graduated from the university of faith already, with a few postgraduate degrees as well. However, the problem is that many of us are stuck in primary school. We should’ve been teaching and helping others, but we still have to be pulled and pushed by others.

I wonder what is the reason for this? Probably because our faith in God is so low on our list of priorities that we hardly spend any time on it. It’s the work or the children or the kids or something else. When we fall into bed tired at night, we say a quick prayer, falling asleep even as we pray.

That’s not right, sorry to say. God should have bigger priority in our lives. We are God’s hands and feet. We are his voice. It’s our calling to spread his message of salvation out there, but we plod along in primary school with only a basic understanding of God and his message.

Maybe this is where we drive in a stake. Maybe we should make an appointment to study God’s Word so that we can understand what God wants for his children in the world of today. We must strengthen ourselves with his knowledge and then go and live and speak it to the people around us.

So that this can be said about us one day: They taught others about the deeper aspects of God’s message of salvation!

Scripture
Hebrews 5:11-14

Reflection
Is this scripture speaking to you?
How much time do you spend on the matters of God?
What do you have to do differently?

Prayer
Father, I know I’m not good enough to be Your hands and feet and mouth here on earth. Please help me spend more time in Your Word so that I can also help others. In Jesus’ Name, amen.