Like a new born baby craves milk, you too should crave the milk of God’s Word. Jesus promises to fill those who are hungry. The Bible becomes your spiritual milk and food. The more you desire and crave it, the more you will be filled and grow up to be a mature believer in Christ.
Study the scriptures below:
1 Peter 2:2 Like newborn babies, you must crave pure spiritual milk so that you will grow into a full experience of salvation. Cry out for this nourishment…
Colossians 4:12 (Ph) ...that you may become mature Christians and may fulfill God’s will for you.
Ephesians 4:14-15 (Ph) We are not meant to remain as children... but to grow up in every way into Christ.
Matthew 5:6 Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled.
(The Scripture below is not for babes in Christ)
Hebrews 5:12 You have been believers so long now that you ought to be teaching others. Instead, you need someone to teach you again the basic things about God's word. You are like babies who need milk and cannot eat solid food.
Jesus never meant for us to stay babies, stagnate, or spiritually immature. He gives us grace, but He does expect for us to grow in our faith.
Sin keeps us in bondage. It separates us from God. God still loves us if we sin, but a Holy God wants His children to be Holy (pure and free) just as He is. We are made in His image and His likeness. Sin should never dominate the Christ follower. We dominate sin. We are no longer slaves to it.
1 Peter 1:15-16 But as he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation (behavior); Because it is written, Be ye holy; for I am holy.
Romans 6:6-7 & 11-14 Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin. For he that is dead is freed from sin. Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord. Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof. Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God. For sin shall not have dominion over you:
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