This is Micah. As you can see, he’s been well fed. Such a chubby baby, it was obvious his Mommy provided very good milk for his food, and she’s done as well with baby food since then.
She didn’t start him on meat, vegetables and grain right off, even though humans eat that food and grow quite well. His digestive system required the right sustenance to grow and thrive. It’s the same for spiritual growth.
Christians begin with the pure milk of the gospel:
As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby: (1 Peter 2:2 KJV)
Growth is expected, but sometimes it is slow:
And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ. I have fed you with milk, and not with meat: for hitherto ye were not able to bear it, neither yet now are ye able. (1 Corinthians 3:1-2 KJV)
Sometimes there is no growth:
For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need that one teach you again which be the first principles of the oracles of God; and are become such as have need of milk, and not of strong meat. (Hebrews 5:12 KJV)
Did you notice that never is there a hint of stopping that milk? Just suggestions that returning to the sincere milk of the word that would be fed to a new born Christian would be good. Think of those first songs we teach children:
Jesus loves me, this I know, for the Bible tells me so!
And the very first verse we memorize:
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. (John 3:16 KJV)
Yep, those are words to grow on, aren’t they? They are what we should be desiring when we hunger and thirst after righteousness.
Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled. (Matthew 5:6 KJV)
Come, and be filled.
And Jesus said unto them, I am the bread of life: he that cometh to me shall never hunger; and he that believeth on me shall never thirst. (John 6:35 KJV)
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