I recently asked God, "why am I learning about discipleship and why am I teaching Sunday School about elementary principles that I should already know?"
God's answer? "Because you DON'T know them."
"Concerning him we have much to say, and it is hard to explain, since you have become dull of hearing. For through by this time you ought to be teachers, you have need again for someone to teach you the elementary princciples of the oracles of God, and you have come to need milk and not solid food. For everyone who partakes only of milk is not accustomed to the word of righteousness, for he is an infant. But solid food is for the mature, who because of practice have their senses trained to discern good and evil." (Hebrews 5:11-14)Ouch. Yet I've been learning that milk isn't necessarily a bad thing. God has been reminding me as of late that I MUST be steeped in milk---the Gospel of Christ. It is the foundation by which everything else stands. Plus, if I do not know the foundation stuff, how then could I teach it?
God also has me in constant prayer. Like yesterday, I found myself praying for a friend that he wouldn't burn out from work and from the ministry. I don't know how I knew to pray for him, but I did. I told him about it and it was spot on! He was indeed close to burning out and appreciated the prayers. Even now as I type, God is bringing to mind all kinds of people, co workers, friends, and family. For God's favor to them, for strength and endurance, for an outpouring of grace to some, and a reminder again of who He is in their lives.
Finally, God has been putting songs in my head and heart and I cannot help but worship him. One song is Starfield's "Cry in My Heart" and the other is Brian Doerksen's "Light the Fire Again."
These are definitely cry's of my heart.
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