BABY FOOD. 1 Corinthians 3:2

1 Corinthians 3:2 compares spiritual teaching to baby food:

Dear brothers and sisters, when I was with you I couldn’t talk to you as I would to spiritual people. I had to talk as though you belonged to this world or as though you were infants in Christ. I had to feed you with milk, not with solid food, because you weren’t ready for anything stronger. And you still aren’t ready, for you are still controlled by your sinful nature. You are jealous of one another and quarrel with each other. Doesn’t that prove you are controlled by your sinful nature? Aren’t you living like people of the world? 1 Corinthians 3:1-3.

What about you? Are you ready to go deeper with God? Or will you be content with baby food? With beans and peas and meat blended and whipped into a milky paste? God is ready to promote you to steaks and real food. Are you ready to be promoted? What about your friends? Do your friends want to grow? Do they read the Word? Are they anxious to move on to the meat of God’s deeper lessons? Or are they content with tiny meals of baby food, five minutes of something light and they’re done for the day or the week?

No one has more influence in the lives of young people than their friends.

Are your friends encouraging you to grow in Christ? Are you encouraging them? And if the subject does not come up, why not? There is not one thing more important in life.

Let me encourage you to go deeper with God, to dine on the MEAT of the Word. Ask Him to help you. He’s ready to feed you more.

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