“Glorious Day” by Casting Crowns
Hebrews 5:8 (KJV) 8 Though he were a Son, yet learned he obedience by the things which he suffered..
Melchisedec (Photo credit: marcofantoni84)
Milk vs. Meat
Hebrews 5:8 tells us that Christ learned submission by the pain (passion) that He felt and suffered. This is a difficult passage for me to understand because it is hard to decipher how Jesus, who is fully God and fully man, had to learn anything. Yet in order to be fully man, he would have to know and have the experience of being perfected. This process on this planet requires suffering and pain. This is how the Lord became “a man of sorrows, acquainted with grief.” (Isaiah 53:3) It is also through his suffering that Jesus is able to relate to our struggles against temptation and our need for Him as our deliverer. He is our faithful High Priest because He knows first hand how vulnerable we are. Perhaps this knowledge is part of the strong meat that this chapter speaks of:
Hebrews 5:10-13 (KJV)
10 Called of God an high priest after the order of Melchisedec. 11 Of whom we have many things to say, and hard to be uttered, seeing ye are dull of hearing. 12 For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need that one teach you again which be the first principles of the oracles of God; and are become such as have need of milk, and not of strong meat. 13 For every one that useth milk is unskilful in the word of righteousness: for he is a babe.
I’d be lying if I said I understand all of the Melchisedec mystery, and the fact that he has no beginning and no end. What the verse here implies is that more would have been told to the recipients of this letter, about Melchisedec, but they were “dull of hearing” (lacked the spiritual maturity necessary to understand what would have been said). How many times has dullness of hearing hindered us from receiving the fullest measure of God’s revelation? How many times have we been eligible for strong meat by reason of age but disqualified by reason of spiritual immaturity? How long will we linger with the milk bottle in our mouths before we decide to move on to the deeper things of God?
It is long past time for some of us to have mastered the first principles of the oracles of God or the basic tenets of the faith, such as faith in Christ Jesus, salvation and knowledge of God’s character. We need to exercise our faith muscles so that we can understand deeper things and properly apply the advanced knowledge that the Lord gives us.
Until we meet again: “Be strong in the Lord and in the power of His might.” (Ephesians 6:10)
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