Scripture: Heb. 5-8
Hebrews 5:1-3
Every high priest selected to represent men and women before God and offer sacrifices for their sins should be able to deal gently with their failings, since he knows what it’s like from his own experience. But that also means that he has to offer sacrifices for his own sins as well as the peoples’.Hebrews 5:11-14
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.
Observations: Paul points out the fallibility of human priests/clergy. One of the failings that I feel Paul pointing to is the fact that I do not share the load as well as I could–there aren’t enough teachers and leaders around me. In the second passage, he blames the students for not listening. How can the teacher do a better job of getting them to listen?
Application: We don’t always know the answers. We think we know the answers, so we offer our opinions. Instead, we should allow teachers to teach, then process the information in discussion as far as we have come to understand it at any rate. This goes for me, for students who learn from me, and for teachers who teach under my authority.
Prayer: Let us decrease that you might increase, Lord Christ. For your sake, Amen.
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