“I have a lot more to say about this, but it is hard to get it across to you since you’ve picked up this bad habit of not listening. By 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—baby’s milk, when you should have been on solid food long ago! Milk is for beginners, inexperienced in God’s ways; solid food is for the mature, who have some practice in telling right from wrong.”
Hebrews 5:11-14 The Message
the Christian community is soft. we let each other off the hook all the time. we ask little of ourselves and ask little of each other and end up asking little of God. this habit we have gotten into of complacency and belittling needs to stop. we can not see God’s glory if we’re telling him to be quiet. we can not trust in his sovereignty and live as we were created to, trusting completely in him, if we’re too busy worrying about our financial security. the word radical means the root- we need to get back to the root of the early church and the root of God’s plan for us- we need to get more radical. we need to break the box we have put around God and we need to grow up and to start asking Him to raise our expectations- to blow them through the roof! then we can be sure that He will be faithful and we can live lives basking in the full glory of God instead of in the glory of our TV sets and IRAs.
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