Isaiah
28:9
9 Whom shall he teach [yarah] knowledge [de`ah]? and whom
shall he make to understand [biyn] doctrine [sh@muw`ah]? them that are weaned [gamal] from the milk [chalab], and drawn [attiyq] from the breasts [shad]. KJV-Interlinear
9 “To whom will he teach
knowledge, and to whom will he explain the message? Those who are weaned from
the milk, those taken from the breast? ESV
The single biggest hindrance to advancing in the
spiritual life is the refusal to seek and receive instruction. People simply do not pursue learning. They find it too tedious, too inconvenient,
and they presume that they do not need to be taught. Thus they fail because of a barrier they
themselves set up between them and God.
The context is drunkards demonstrating a disorganized
life as a result of not knowing truth.
Truth is the content of the scriptures. Truth has to be learned from within the
environment of fellowship, which is the environment obtained when one confesses
his sins. Fellowship gives one the
clarity of sight and thought, making discernment, learning, understanding, and
using Bible doctrine easy and beneficial.
Truth has to be learned through instruction, but one
has to be willing to learn, and objective in learning, and consistent in their
daily learning.
Those who refuse or resist learning, or the learning
process, do not learn. That should be obvious. Therefore, they do not gain access to the
clarity of life, lack orientation to life and reality, and that leaves the fog
and confusion of the carnal world.
In total blackness, knowledge wise, there is
stumbling, falling, disorientation and so forth, just as a drunk would
behave. Because when you cannot see, you
cannot have any form of frame of reference.
You do not know where you have been, where you are, or where you are
going, spiritually speaking.
In any case, even when learning begins, it begins as
an infant. For an infant cannot learn
adult concepts. And one remains as a
spiritual infant, so long as the learning process is hampered or hindered or
not used at all.
An infant needs its momma. Only when you begin to grow up, can you wean
off of momma and begin to eat the solid foods of an adult.
So the question is posed, when all are negative toward
doctrine, then who is there to teach, who is there to learn, who is there to
wean?
And the answer is obvious.
When people just want to feel good, just want to be
entertained, just want to pass by, then they are not going to learn anything but
infant concepts, if they learn anything at all.
That leaves them open to the many distractions and
opinions of this world, for they do not have the inner resources to resist the
worlds distractions and opinions. And
that leaves disaster waiting just around the corner.
And so, to avoid spiritual disaster, then each person
needs to develop an inner desire to want to learn, and then pursue that
learning process so they can grow up to spiritual maturity, so they can develop
and fulfil their own meaning and purpose, which God intended, for their life.
