Hebrews 4:15 - Comment

This is actually backward. You should read the next link down first, then this one.

Hebrews 5:14. NASB95
14 But solid food is for the mature, who because of practice (or “habit”) have their senses trained to discern good and evil.

Hebrews 4:15. Wuest Expanded Translation
But solid food belongs to those are [spiritually] mature, to those who on account of long usage have their powers of perception exercised to the point where they are able to discriminate between both that which is good in character and that which is evil.

I got thinking about this verse the other day with regard to a puzzling situation, which I will not go into. I wondered why some Christians have a well-developed ability to discern, and some do not.

We have a "faculty of the mind" which can be trained to perceive, understand, and judge.

How do we do that?

First by reading the word of God. (As a habit)

Second by holding things up in prayer to God, and allowing Him to judge, cross-checking our judgment. (As a habit)

Third by holding things up for consideration and testing by the local body of believers we walk in, also cross-checking our judgment. (As a habit)

When the author of Hebrews says that this is for the mature, he is right. However, it is within the reach of any of us, by practice and by habit.