Hebrews 5 - 8.25.25

Scripture

Hebrews 5:14

“But solid food is for the mature, who by constant use have trained themselves to distinguish good from evil.” 

Observation

This chapter begins with the role of a High Priest and how Jesus is our ultimate High Priest. Then it speaks about the difference between a baby Believer and a Mature Believer. Mature Believers are able to distinguish between good and evil. The writer is urging his audience to grow their faith into maturity. 

Application

To grow from infancy to maturity, set aside daily time to be in God’s Word.

As we study and apply His Word everyday, we are better able to discern God’s voice vs. the enemy’s voice.  

The devil knows scripture too and can twist God’s Words, just like he did in the Garden with Eve and with Jesus in the desert. However, Jesus is stronger than our adversary, so we must not let that scare us from diving into Scripture. We will also be able to discern good from evil as a believer because we have the Holy Spirit living inside of us! We all get tempted by evil.  Even Jesus wasn’t exempt from it, but He overcame through knowing God’s Word.

Last Sunday, Pastor Katie spoke about how we will be doing a Bible challenge to read our Bibles everyday starting in the month of September! I’m so excited for that! The great news is that we don’t have to wait until the kick off for that challenge to start. We can read our Bibles everyday with help from our Bible reading and SOAP journal blog! Here’s the link: https://desertstreams.com/bibleandjournal

There’s this song that I was taught as a young child that goes: “Read your Bible, pray everyday and you grow, grow, grow.” 

Let’s read our Bibles and continue growing in Christ! 

Prayer

Dear Lord,

Thank You for Your Word.  Thank You for our daily bible readings and SOAP blogs, where we discipline ourselves to be in Your Word everyday. Holy Spirit, please help us to read, study and apply it to our lives so that we can overcome any evil and temptation the devil throws at us, just like You did when tempted in the desert. Help us to discern good from evil through Your Word. Thank You that we are overcomers and conquerors through You Jesus. Amen!

-Michelle Gaddi