Take Your Rightful Place


There is a place where a child has learned enough.  From that place he is expected to do the things of an adult.  

It is not appropriate for someone who has learned what is required of an adult to go back to his childhood and claim ignorance.  It is no longer ignorance, it is rebellion.    But isn’t the world teaming with such individuals?  And isn’t there a lot of childish behavior among the Church of Christ?

Yes.  The same is true with the things of God.  One who has newly encountered the things of holiness does not have the same expectations placed on him as the one who is well-versed in the things of God.  And just like the child, ignorance can be no excuse when there are so very many possibilities to learn.  

But when the time is right, God will expect of us the things appropriate to the understanding we have achieved.  Provided that the Christian applies himself to learn.  

Be childlike in your faith.  Be responsible with what you have been given.   See how a family is ashamed when one of its members refuses maturity.   Let us not be a shameful member of Christ’s bride.  

Knowledge and Doing


If you want to receive the blessing of God.  If you want to become a real Christian.  Then set your mind, and very will, to do the things you know he requires.

Where many stand confused, is that they misperceive knowing for doing.  A man may know how to drive a car, but never start the engine.  The transforming power of knowledge comes in the doing of it.

God will surely bless the one who does what he is told to do.  There is no other path to the blessing of God in Christ.

By His Grace