"Like newborn babies, crave pure spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow up in your salvation,"
A thought occurred to me this morning while reading this verse about babies and milk. Newborns are suppose to get all their nutrients from milk for a large part of their first year of life. In fact that is all they know. It is all that exists for them... and they know it.
Peter challenges us to crave God's spiritual nutrition the same way a newborn craves milk. I think this is beautiful poetry and application. If God is all we knew was there to supply our needs, we would be more apt to coming only to Him for nutrition. The challenge we face is that we convince ourselves that He (in our own minds) is not the only source of fulfillment. So we go searching for it. We taste other gods thinking they taste the same but knowing down in our hearts there is something lesser, weaker about what we are tasting.
What would happen if today you and I lived as if God's supply was everything? Peter tells us the answer lies in that when we taste, we will see that the Lord is good.
Heart and Soul,BAG
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