Milk Does A Body Good

Milk Does A Body Good
2As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby: 3If so be ye have tasted that the Lord is gracious. - 1 Peter 2:2 KJV
Like newborn babies, crave pure spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow up in your salvation, 3 now that you have tasted that the Lord is good. 1 Peter 2:2 NIV

To desire something is to have a strong feeling that moves you to do whatever it takes to attain or possess that thing. To desire is to hunger, to thirst, crave, long and to yearn. Desire is a persistent uneasiness that lingers until that need is met. Even though it seems out of reach you just know that you know that you know that you know that one day I am going to have what I am wishing for.

Look back at the first three words of 1 Peter 2:2. What does it say? It says, “As newborn babes.” Now those of us who been babes and that’s all us, know that when we wanted what we wanted we didn’t shut up until we got it. We hollered we cried we rolled on the floor. We poked out our lips. We made sure that everyone around us knew that we were not going to be denied the thing that we desired the most.

What God is saying here is that we must get the same attitude of a newborn babe when we are going after Him. Jacob while wrestling with God said in Genesis 32:26, “I will not let thee go, except thou bless me.” Until our change comes we have to hold onto the altar and let nothing separate from the promises of God. We have to hold on and hang on until we see what we desire from God come to pass.

Mark 10:45 – 47 reads thusly, “46And they came to Jericho: and as he went out of Jericho with his disciples and a great number of people, blind Bartimaeus, the son of Timaeus, sat by the highway side begging. 47And when he heard that it was Jesus of Nazareth, he began to cry out, and say, Jesus, thou son of David, have mercy on me.”

Listen at this in Luke chapter 19, “Jesus entered Jericho and made his way through the town. 2 There was a man there named Zacchaeus. He was the chief tax collector in the region, and he had become very rich. 3 He tried to get a look at Jesus, but he was too short to see over the crowd. 4 So he ran ahead and climbed a sycamore-fig tree beside the road, for Jesus was going to pass that way. 5 When Jesus came by, he looked up at Zacchaeus and called him by name. “Zacchaeus!” he said. “Quick, come down! I must be a guest in your home today.” (To be continued)