Let me tell you a funny story
One day the king of the jungle summoned his subject in the plateau of one of the highest mountain. The lion commanded each animal to tell their jokes as well warning them that if no one will laugh or even if a single animal will not smile, he will throw the storyteller into the cliff. The first animal whom the Lion called was the monkey, when he started to tell his joke and he reaches the climax of his joke, everybody laughs except the turtle. Because of that, the poor monkey was thrown to the cliff and died. Another one, a wild boar told his joke, when he reach the punch line everybody began to laugh hysterically except the turtle, then the same fate happened to the wild boar. The next was the Zebra, he was nervous, when he started to tell his joke even not reaching the punch line, the turtle began to laugh. Everybody was puzzled why the turtle laughed so loud. Then the turtle said, “The monkey, his joke is so funny!
The writer of the book of Hebrews encountered a kind of people the same with turtle, people who are “slow to learn.” He wrote, “We have much to say about this, but it is hard to explain because you are slow to learn. [Heb 5:11 NIV] The followers of Christ were called for numerous times in the gospel as ‘disciple’ literally means ‘pupil’ or ‘student.’ However, some who are called pupils are ‘slow to learn.” They are supposed to be teachers, but their way of learning they are slow as turtle. In our churches today, they are the old ones [not in age] members for many decades who are immature enough to be teachers. The Church is portray as “school of Christ” in the scriptures.
Let us reflect with this. What is our level in the school of Christ?
Do we learn many things from studying in his feet?
