"For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you again the basic principles of the oracles of God. You need milk, not solid food, for everyone who lives on milk is unskilled in the word of righteousness, since he is a child. But solid food is for the mature, for those who have their powers of discernment trained by constant practice to distinguish good from evil.” Hebrews 5:12-14
In a recent article titled The Lost Art of Pacing, Kevin Hanson, coach of the Hansons-Brooks Original Distance Project, says there is a "lost art of feeling pace." He encourages his athletes not to become too dependent on their GPS watches which can fail or provide inaccurate information. By relying on a device to tell us when to speed up and slow down, we fail to learn the correct way to determine the pace ourselves. And so, when the device crashes or malfunctions, a runner can get "off track" very quickly. It's only by "constant practice" to distinguish pace without help that we can maintain it when we are alone or unassisted.
The same can be true of our spiritual training. We can sometimes rely on a Pastor, group leader or a friend too much to spoon feed us the basic principles of God that we fail to develop the skills to do it on our own. If we are, "by constant practice", reading the Word for ourselves, we can become mature Christians, those who feast on solid food and are skilled in the word of Righteousness. We can become the Christians who can keep the pace when there is no one to direct and guide us being trained by "constant practice" to distinguish good from evil.
How about you? Are you relying on someone or something to train you or to teach you again the basic principles of God? If so, it's time for "constant practice" in the Word. Read it, study it and learn it and soon you will be on pace and right on track all by yourself.
Heavenly Father, thank you for the gift of your Word that tells us everything we need to know to become mature Christians so that we might never get off track from the plan you have for us. Help us Lord to train daily by reading our bibles that we might discern for ourselves good from evil. And, in doing so, help us to go on to be teachers of the Word rather than mere children. It's in your precious name we pray, Jesus. Amen.
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http://www.runnersworld.com/rt-columns/the-lost-art-of-pacing
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