12 For though by this time you ought to be teachers [because of the time you have had to learn these truths], you actually need someone to teach you again the elementary principles of God’s word [from the beginning], and you have come to be continually in need of milk, not solid food. 13 For everyone who lives on milk is [doctrinally inexperienced and] unskilled in the word of righteousness, since he is a spiritual infant. 14 But solid food is for the [spiritually] mature, whose senses are trained by practice to distinguish between what is morally good and what is evil.
As it is written in verse 12 “because of the time you have had to learn these truths”. Let’s take a marriage for example, After approximately 25 years of marriage the spouse who has not been raised in the Bible feels threatened by the idea of going to church. They may try it for a week or two and go back to his or her ungodly ways, and refuses to make an effort anymore. No one can make you do what you do not want to do, and neither will God force you either. It is your choice.
Anything that is unhealthy and takes a toll on your health has to change or be removed. No God doesn’t like divorces, yet, He will not condemn you or stop loving you if you have been living in darkness for years. If you are the one rejecting God, don’t act surprised when you are alone - but there is still hope for you and possibly the marriage, but you have to stop the excuses and selfish desires and ways to justify why you are hard to get along with. How hard is it to pick up a Bible and begin a new life - a better life?
I am not trying to say I am perfect. I have many imperfections; however, it is necessary for me and my household to seek perfection by spending time with God. If I chase perfection I can catch excellence. God does NOT condemn you, look at your past, and reject you at all. When you come to Him with an open heart to want to be healed, all He says is Come. That is why He is the Judge of us all; whereas, man judges too harshly. We tend to forget our sins, but are quick to harshly tell someone of their faults. God does it in a loving way, we do it with malice in our hearts - which is NOT God’s character at all. Let God change your attitudes, and you by His love that surpasses all understanding.
None of us deserves God’s love, yet He loves us anyway regardless of our sins.
John 3:16-20 AMPC
16 For God so greatly loved and dearly prized the world that He [even] gave up His only begotten (unique) Son, so that whoever believes in (trusts in, clings to, relies on) Him shall not perish (come to destruction, be lost) but have eternal (everlasting) life.
17 For God did not send the Son into the world in order to judge (to reject, to condemn, to pass sentence on) the world, but that the world might find salvation and be made safe and sound through Him.
18 He who believes in Him [who clings to, trusts in, relies on Him] is not judged [he who trusts in Him never comes up for judgment; for him there is no rejection, no condemnation—he incurs no damnation]; but he who does not believe (cleave to, rely on, trust in Him) is judged already [he has already been convicted and has already received his sentence] because he has not believed in and trusted in the name of the only begotten Son of God. [He is condemned for refusing to let his trust rest in Christ’s name.]
19 The [basis of the] judgment (indictment, the test by which men are judged, the ground for the sentence) lies in this: the Light has come into the world, and people have loved the darkness rather than and more than the Light, for their works (deeds) were evil.
20 For every wrongdoer hates (loathes, detests) the Light, and will not come out into the Light but shrinks from it, lest his works (his deeds, his activities, his conduct) be exposed and reproved.
It’s never too late or are you too sinful for God to show you His love. That is why Jesus died to save a wretch like me and you!
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