From Milk to Meat
Yesterday, Ethan was getting very frustrated with his algebra word problems!
We had to spend much more time on his math than usual on account of the challenge of understanding the word problems.
Let me tell you, they are not easy!
For example, one of his problems yesterday read; Jim earns money doing yard work each week. During three weeks, he earned a total of $168. If each week his earnings doubled, how much how much did he make each week?
See what I mean?
Ethan has to write out (create) the proper equation that will find the answer to this word problem.
Then after he has the equation figured out, he has to solve it.
Sometimes we get frustrated because we don’t understand something in the word.
It is even more common to not understand how another person can handle certain situations in a much more “righteous” manner than we can!
Especially when they are being ridiculed or mocked in some way.
We are all growing in the Lord daily, amen?
We all have to start out on the milk!
Spiritual baby food, amen?
We can’t try to eat meat until we are ready just like a newborn baby doesn’t get fed solid food until it is ready, amen?
That would be the same as me trying to get Ethan to write equations for word problems before we learn the multiplication tables!
1 Corinthians 3:1-2 NIV (1) Brothers and sisters, I could not address you as people who live by the Spirit but as people who are still worldly—mere infants in Christ. (2) I gave you milk, not solid food, for you were not yet ready for it. Indeed, you are still not ready.
You see, we must digest the word of God in increments as we mature in the word. Amen?
Now, we must always digest milk but as we grow, we add solid food (meat) to our diet. Amen?
If we don’t, we will find ourselves on a milk only diet when we should be feeding others!
Hebrews 5:12 NIV 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!
May this find you adding some meat to your spiritual food daily.
Oh, for anyone that was curious the equation is x + 2x + 4x = 168 and the solution is $24, $48 and $96.
Have a blessed day indeed.
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