“It is good that the heart be established by grace”
(Hebrews 13:9).

Reuben was as “unstable as water” and therefore would not excel (Genesis 49:4). By contrast, John the Immerser was no “reed shaken by the wind” (Matthew 11:7). The Athenians were always after a new doctrine—they spent their time in either telling or
hearing some new thing (Acts 17:21). The Galatians were quick to leave the gospel. It surprised Paul, who said, “I marvel that you are turning away so soon from Him who called you in the grace of Christ, to a different gospel” (Galatians 1:6). Paul wrote of others who were “always learning and never able to come to the
knowledge of the truth” (2 Timothy 3:7).

We should not be like these