PrayerBits for Monday

PrayerBits

A bite sized devotional program
produced by the West Side Presbyterian Church

Monday

Scripture lesson: Hebrews 5:7-6:2 Keep growing and learning

Time to reflect: [Melchizedek is from Gen 14 and was the King/Priest of Jerusalem from the time of Abraham. Not much is said and so he became an object of speculation in the intertestamental period. Hebrews uses the figure as a precursor symbol for Christ.] We are called on here to keep working at our theological understanding, not accepting easy answers nor giving up and deciding we know all we need to know.

Moving Through the Day: Make a plan for expanding your knowledge and being challenged, theologically this year.

Scripture:

  7During the days of Jesus' life on earth, he offered up prayers and petitions with loud cries and tears to the one who could save him from death, and he was heard because of his reverent submission. 8Although he was a son, he learned obedience from what he suffered 9and, once made perfect, he became the source of eternal salvation for all who obey him 10and was designated by God to be high priest in the order of Melchizedek.

Warning Against Falling Away

 11We have much to say about this, but it is hard to explain because you are slow to learn. 12In fact, though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you the elementary truths of God's word all over again. You need milk, not solid food! 13Anyone who lives on milk, being still an infant, is not acquainted with the teaching about righteousness. 14But solid food is for the mature, who by constant use have trained themselves to distinguish good from evil.

Hebrews 6

 1Therefore let us leave the elementary teachings about Christ and go on to maturity, not laying again the foundation of repentance from acts that lead to death,[a] and of faith in God, 2instruction about baptisms, the laying on of hands, the resurrection of the dead, and eternal judgment.