Crave Like a Baby
Updated: Apr 28
“Like newborn babies, crave pure spiritual milk so that by it you may grow up in your salvation.” (I Peter 2:2, emphasis mine)
Right here. This.
The significance of why, as born-again believers in Christ, we need to “crave pure spiritual milk.”
The necessity of a desperate desire for God’s Word and the cruciality of its consumption.
And not just occasionally, here and there when the notion strikes, but making it as much a routine habit as a dependent, helpless baby whose life and well-being are contingent upon a continuous, daily intake of milk. Oh-so-wonderful, oh-so-satisfying, nourishing milk!
Very clearly, Peter communicates the significance of doing so in I Peter 2:2: It’s so that we “grow up in [our] salvation.” So that you and I become mature children of God—the Father's desire for each of His children.
Bottom line:
Without ongoing, daily consumption of the Word, our spiritual growth is naturally hindered; and over time, what results is spiritual malnourishment—overall weakness, lethargy and lifelessness.
Certainly not the vibrant life Christ’s sacrificial death makes accessible and attainable.
And certainly not the spiritual alertness this world so desperately needs to encounter.
