COMMENTS
Those who have real and sincere faith in God are willing to take Him at His word; and with these the first principles of the doctrine should long ago have been established; much of the superstructure of gold and silver and precious stones should already be erected, and the work be steadily progressing. Such are able, if they are loyal and true to God, to discern between truth and error. We ought to know what we believe and why we believe it, and then should be bold and uncompromising in declaring it; for "if the trumpet give an uncertain sound who shall prepare himself to the battle?"
As the natural babes have not physical organs sufficiently strong to digest strong meat, neither have the spiritual babes organs sufficiently strong to assimilate strong spiritual meat. One must be well developed in Christ properly to assimilate the deepest truths, and such a development is attained, only by a constant exercise of the mental, moral and religious faculties in spiritual respects. Like the natural, the spiritual muscles are strengthened by exercise.
Jer. 15:16; Ezek. 3:3; Amos 8:11-13; Rom. 16:19; 1 Cor. 2:6-16; 13:11; 14:20; 1 Pet. 2:2; Psa. 119:99; 131:2; Eph. 3:5; 4:13-15; Col. 3:16; 2 Tim. 3:15-17; Heb. 6:1; 2 Pet. 3:16, 18; Jas. 1:18-25.
