Not everyone has the same amount of money, but everyone has the same amount of time. In the long run this is more important and a great measure of human equality. Yet even as some people spend their money wisely and some spend it foolishly whether they have little or much, so you can spend your allotment of time wisely or foolishly. Do you think of unproductive effort as wasting time? Another perspective on the same issue is not to give your heart to things of no value. For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also and there will you spend the time you have. If you guard your heart and only give it to things of true and enduring value, then you will spend your time wisely and well. 

My word contrasts milk and meat as sources of nourishment. Milk is for babies and children, and meat is for those who are grown. What is the spiritual meaning of this distinction? Milk is food eaten by others for you. New Christians get their instruction from others so that they may learn the established doctrines of the faith. This is entirely proper and necessary and fits the natural parallel of milk for children. But the essence of the Christian faith is a relationship with me and I want you to move on to the point that you can relate to and hear from me yourself in addition to what you hear from me through others. 

I told a parable about new wine and old wine, and new and old wineskins. You understand that the wineskin is a church, and that a new wineskin that is flexible is required for the new wine I am preparing. The church must be able to adapt to accommodate what I am doing. You also know that the church is not a building but is comprised of people. So this truth can be scaled to any level, and applies to individuals as well as organizations. It is not just a new organizational structure that is required for my next move. The attitudes and mindsets of individual believers must be changed for them to respond to and be involved in my next move. 

Have you been born again? Have you been born again again? After you serve me for many years you may go through a further stage of development in which it seems that everything that has gone before was wasted. Don’t be discouraged, my word is full of examples of people who spent lengthy periods of preparation. This time was not wasted; for they went on to accomplish the tasks I set before them. My purposes do not fit the pattern of time, speed, and distance. Although your progress may be invisible it is necessary to get you ready for your destiny. Expect and welcome the opportunity to be born again again.