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NKJV
I fed
you with milk and not with solid food; for until now you were not able to
receive it, and even now you are still not able;
NLT
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,
Paul taught the Corinthians the basics when they were new
believers. This is akin to feeding a
baby milk at first. That baby is not ready for steak, in fact couldn’t do anything
with steak if you gave them steak. But,
as men, we are to grow closer to Christ every day so that we can eat that steak
when the time comes. In today’s verse Paul
says, “you weren’t ready for anything but milk; and your still not ready”
To me, that’s the attention getter; I’m still not ready for anything deeper
that spiritual milk? Let’s talk about
that for a minute.
Every doctrine that is taught in seminary can be taught to
children. You just can’t use the same
words or dig as deep. There is only one
gospel and it’s the same for all ages, the same for the learned and the
unlearned. Spiritual milk and spiritual
steaks are not a difference in what you are taught, but in how you are
taught. The difference is in the application
of our call to know God better. There
was a football coach that told his players to just be 10% better today than you
were yesterday. That’s what we should
do, know Christ better today than we did yesterday. But that last line….
“and you still aren’t ready” I have read that the real
problem wasn’t the Corinthians ability to receive “spiritual solid food”, but their
attraction to “junk food”. Spiritual junk
food is based on man’s knowledge and well-spoken words. This is the easy words of some speakers,
words that don’t call for us to change; words that tickle our ears for what we
want to hear. If I’m not challenged by
what I read; if the pastor hasn’t stepped on my toes; then what I just recieved
is spiritual junk food. Don’t develop a
taste for it. Try every day to grow in
your walk…be a meat eater.
Meat eater,
cej
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