"For although you ought to be teachers by this time, again you need someone to teach you the basics of God’s sayings. You have come to need milk, not solid food. For anyone living on milk is inexperienced with the teaching about righteousness—he is an infant. But solid food is for the mature, who through practice have their senses trained to discern both good and evil."
- Hebrews 5:12-14
Most of us know these verses about spiritual maturity but do we notice the critical word "practice". It is difficult but true that we must encounter both good and evil to recognize what is good. It is only though experience and training by the Ruach HaKodesh that we grow. If we avoid difficult circumstances, then we remain spiritual infants, but if we trust that Adonai will teach us through anything, then we can eagerly reach for the food of righteousness.
