May 15, 2022 Easter 5 The Sunday of the Holy Spirit
Easter 5
James 1:16-21
May 15, 2022
“Can You See the Good?”
In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.
There’s a verse in the book of Hebrews we’ll start with first of all today. It’s in the middle of a section where he’s telling us we need to be more mature as Christians. We need to leave our ABCs and move on to more mature teachings. But some of us aren’t ready for it. He says we’re still drinking only milk like babies do when we should be moving on to solid food. And here’s the verse, Hebrews 5:14, “But solid food is for the mature, for those who have their powers of discernment trained by constant practice to distinguish good from evil.”
So telling the difference between good and evil isn’t simple. In fact, it’s something that only the mature can do, for one. And second, it’s something that takes a lot of practice. Constant practice, he says. Have you ever thought about this before? We tend to think it’s so easy to tell what’s good and what’s evil. Not so. Not so at all. Think about it this way. If it was so easy would there be so much evil in the world. No. It’s a skill. Christians have to develop this skill (through God’s Word and the Holy Spirit) to clearly distinguish what’s good in the world and what’s evil.
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