Crave Pure Spiritual Milk

Now that you have purified yourselves by obeying the truth so that you have sincere love for each other, love one another deeply, from the heart. For you have been born again, not of perishable seed, but of imperishable, through the living and enduring word of God. For, “All people are like grass, and all their glory is like the flowers of the field; the grass withers and the flowers fall, but the word of the Lord endures forever.”

And this is the word that was preached to you.

1 Peter 1:22-25

Therefore, rid yourselves of all malice and all deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and slander of every kind. Like newborn babies, crave pure spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow up in your salvation, now that you have tasted that the Lord is good.

1 Peter 2:1-3

Babies coo and laugh differently and at different things, and they do this when they are happy. They cry when they are hurt or hungry.

As a baby craves milk, followers of Christ are to crave “pure milk of the Word’ that leads to spiritual growth.

Peter wrote to encourage a group of Christ-followers who had been scattered by persecution. He urged them to set aside feelings of anger and jealousy toward each other, along with talking one way and living another way.

The Lord invites us to drink all that we need from His bountiful supply. He loves to watch His children grow!

The more we dig into God’s Word, the more we grow.

Our Daily Bread – September 6, 2013