Christmas is a month away.  There will be much decorating everywhere.  Perhaps if we keep the sweet baby in the manger we won't have to deal with the grown man on the cross?   Everybody loves a baby.

I was reading Hebrews 5 and 6 last night and was struck by this thought: We need to move forward in the faith and quit going over the same things over and over again:  5:12-13 "...you ought to be teachers, but you need for someone to teach you again the basic principles of the oracles of God; you've become one who needs milk and not strong meat...everyone that uses milk is unskilful in the word...for he is a baby."  We need to have "Biblical Meat."  We need to be weaned from the bottle so we can grow.

And then the writer admonishes them to move on.  Get going.  Grow.  Mature.

He (or she) says, "Leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ, let us go on to perfection..." not going over and over "..the foundation of repentance from dead works, and faith toward God...baptisms, laying on of hands, resurrection of the dead, and eternal judgment."

Those things are necessary from the pulpit, but in our lives, we already know about those things.  We need to be reading the Word, asking ourselves, "What's next?  What does God want from me.  What am I supposed to be learning now that I am a grown up believer."

You can't stop reading the Word.  You can't just say, "I got saved so I'm going to heaven," and think that's all of it.  You have to get off the bottle of milk and dig into the meat of God's word.  The writer says, "...you ought to be teachers..."

Teach somebody.  But remember, you can't teach what you don't know.  We are to be "..ever  learning..." for the purpose of helping babes in Christ grow, too.