Slow to Learn
You are slow to learn.
Hebrews 5:11 (NIV)
Hebrews diagnoses with pastoral frankness: we have much to say, hard to explain, because you are slow to learn. No intellectual slowness — willingness slowness. Ears clogged with spiritual laziness, hearts chewing over-slowly. The writer held Melchizedek to explain; readers held sleep to conquer. Profundity lost through inattention.
Courage accelerates spiritual learning. Moving from milk to solids demands chewing: reading with pens, listening with notebooks, questioning shamelessly. Slow learners stagnate in theological nurseries — offended by everything, doubting everything, growing in nothing. God keeps “much to say” reserved for quick ears: mysteries for hungry, solids for practitioners.
Unclog ears today: reading one hard chapter slowly, noting three lessons, practicing one. Slow to learn: speeding today, deepening tomorrow.
Quick ears receive reserved revelations. Sharpening yours through discipline today. Clogged ears miss reserved revelations daily. Unstop yours with disciplined reading today. Hard chapters yield sweet doctrines slowly. Chew thoroughly and grow steadily. Teaching others doubles personal learning always. Share today's lesson before sunset. Givers of truth receive deeper truths. Never stagnate in nurseries again. Graduate from milk permanently. Crave solids daily. Grow up.
And teaching someone: teachers learn twice, never staying slow.