Doctors suggest an annual check-up in order to remain healthy. Our car’s dashboard will light up when we need maintenance. Our monthly bank statement helps us to know if we are spending and saving like we should. We need “checks and balances” in our lives, and Paul suggests that we know the same is true for our spiritual lives as well.

How long has it been since you placed your spiritual growth under a bright light to determine the health of your soul?

Paul said, “Look carefully then how you walk, not as unwise but as wise.” You are reading or listening to Wisdom Matters because you understand that your soul needs to be strengthened by the wisdom of God’s word. But living for God is different than simply living with a knowledge of God. We need to examine our actions and our choices and discern how closely and carefully we are living according to the wisdom of God’s word.

Thinking and carefully measuring our spiritual growth takes time. Are you more likely to consume spiritual meat or spiritual milk? Meat is the time you spend searching God’s word for yourself and listening to God’s voice of direction in your own life. Milk is the amount of time you spend listening to the words and ideas about God that someone else has provided. 

I’m glad you are part of Wisdom Matters, but my hope is that my thoughts will drive you to search the Scriptures for the thoughts God wants to author just for you. We all consume both meat and milk. Paul used that picture to describe what a mature Christian should be consuming more often. Babies take in only milk. You are strong and growing when you learn to consume God’s word for yourself.

Paul said, “Make the best use of time, because the days are evil.” We live in a busy culture that doesn’t leave us much time for quiet, prayerful, individual study of God’s word. The days are evil because this world is Satan’s kingdom. Each time you step away from the world to spend time with God, you have made the best use of your time. 

Good advice and careful instruction provide wisdom. Allow resources like Wisdom Matters to draw you into God’s word so that you can then pursue his will and wisdom for yourself. We all need “meat” to grow and stay spiritually strong. I’m happy to provide the “milk” as a healthy beverage on the side.