Welcome to Meandering Monday, where we take a trip back to an earlier post and enjoy it again.
So let us stop going over the basic teachings about Christ again and again. Let us go on instead and become mature in our understanding. Hebrews 6:1 NLT
Country music
artist Waylon Jennings sang about getting back to the basics of love. So did
the Christian group, 4 Him.
The
importance of basics depends on what the basics are. If I choose a basic virus
protection package for my computer, I give up full protection. If for my
television satellite provider, channels I won’t be able to watch. The basics
are the bare minimum. Whether having only the basics is enough merits further
consideration.
Basics carry disadvantages
but are necessary to enjoy the frills. I can’t watch ESPN if I don’t at least
have satellite or cable. I can’t enjoy full virus protection if I don’t at
least have the virus program. I can’t get back to the basics of love if I don’t
have love to begin with.
When the
writer says to leave the basics of Christianity and get on with mature
spiritual living, he doesn’t mean the basics are dispensable. I can’t grow up
in Christ if I don’t have Christ. While these early believers didn’t need to
continually rehash the basics, the basics were imperative.
The basics of
the biblical message concern God’s love and humanity’s problem. God calls the
problem sin, and he cannot associate with it because of his holy nature. Either
I or someone else must pay. Because of his enormous and matchless love, God
decided to allow his Son to pay the debt. He did so by dying on a cross on a
hill called Calvary.
In some
unfathomable way, God placed the world’s sins on his Son, thereby freeing all
persons who choose to accept his gift. Through faith in Christ and belief in his
resurrection, we can be reconciled to God, enjoy an abundant life presently,
and look forward to a wonderful eternity.
We can’t
leave the basics out, but once we’ve accepted them, we must grow in our
understanding of how to apply to life what we’ve received. What have you done
with the basics?
Prayer:
Merciful God, thank You for the basics that remind us of the great love You’ve
shown through Jesus Christ.
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