"As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby:
If so be ye have tasted that the Lord is gracious."
1 Peter 2:3
This is an interesting analogy, and I think it goes along with the whole idea of learning about and discovering God, and then when we realize how amazing he is, incorporating him into our lives. This analogy I think is showing us that our seeking doesn't have to be complicated... it can be almost as instinctual as what usually gets us into trouble. The only changes are that we're using our spiritual instincts rather than our physical ones, and that we're looking in the right place for the answers, rather than all the wrong places as we usually do. We taste that God's word is good, and thereafter we want more and more as we seek nourishment and goodness.
Today, instead of trying to fill the holes in our lives with physical desires or obsessions that can mask the pain, let's get spiritual and seek the only source that can *heal* the pain and fill the God-sized hole that nothing else *can* fill. Let's seek the Lord as a child seeks a caring parent, to be obeyed because they love us and watch out for us, and because that is the way to be fed and to grow up and learn how to be like them. Let's follow God and want to be like him. Let's drink of his word as though it were the only nourishment in the world.
If so be ye have tasted that the Lord is gracious."
1 Peter 2:3
This is an interesting analogy, and I think it goes along with the whole idea of learning about and discovering God, and then when we realize how amazing he is, incorporating him into our lives. This analogy I think is showing us that our seeking doesn't have to be complicated... it can be almost as instinctual as what usually gets us into trouble. The only changes are that we're using our spiritual instincts rather than our physical ones, and that we're looking in the right place for the answers, rather than all the wrong places as we usually do. We taste that God's word is good, and thereafter we want more and more as we seek nourishment and goodness.
Today, instead of trying to fill the holes in our lives with physical desires or obsessions that can mask the pain, let's get spiritual and seek the only source that can *heal* the pain and fill the God-sized hole that nothing else *can* fill. Let's seek the Lord as a child seeks a caring parent, to be obeyed because they love us and watch out for us, and because that is the way to be fed and to grow up and learn how to be like them. Let's follow God and want to be like him. Let's drink of his word as though it were the only nourishment in the world.
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