“You have been Christians a long time now, and you ought to be teaching others. Instead, you need someone to teach you again the basic things a beginner must learn about the Scriptures. You are like babies who drink only milk and cannot eat solid food. And a person who is living on the milk isn’t very far along in the Christian life and doesn’t know much about doing what is right.” Hebrews 5:12-13
Have you ever thought how amazing it is that every human and creature born starts out on either their mother’s milk or formula. It is their source of food and it is exactly what is required in order for them to grow.
Number 13 on our list of things to crave-Spiritual Growth
Jesus has the same desire for us as Christians to grow spiritually. I could sit here and type and type but in reality the truth is when it comes to our Spiritual Growth it is very simple.
We must get off the milk! Just as a mother must wean here baby from nursing, we too have to be weaned from the basics of Christianity. Meaning, get off of John 3:16 and start getting deeper into the Word of God! Start learning more than one Scripture!
Start introducing solid food! Start tasting the variety of flavors God’s Word has to offer. Allow your spiritual taste buds to experience the lasting fulfillment of a deeper understanding of who Jesus is. We need to start applying Scripture to our lives and living them out! We need to start being more faithful to our commitment to Jesus and living in complete obedience! We must allow the Word of God to penetrate within us, or from our food prospective we need to take a bite(Read the word) chew it up(meditate on it, take it in), swallow it( apply it)and allow it to digest(store within us). When we do that we start developing the ingredients for our recipe of growth! Each and every day we must learn new things from God’s Word and add those ingredients to our recipe. This recipe can NEVER have too much in it!
And lastly we must take our recipe out into the world and share it with all the newborns and with those who want to be weaned, and introduced to solids!
So today I hope you try a new ingredient to your recipe of growth, I promise you will be so surprised with how amazing just that one ingredient will make your recipe!
Prayer: Jesus help us to taste all the flavors of Your Word and allow it to digest and settle within us, filling us up and allowing our faith to grow, In Jesus name, Amen.
