Meat Versus Milk

When it comes to The Word of God, are you ready for more meat, or are you still drinking milk?

Have you grown in your knowledge and understanding in Christ, or are you still a babe in Christ?

Just because you have been in church, or physically attending church services, for a number of years, does not mean that you are a mature Christian spiritually. It does not matter how old you are chronologically, you can still be a babe in Christ.

Paul makes it clear that sometimes preachers have to preach and teach the people in church like they are the lost folk of the world. "And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ. I have fed you with milk and not with meat; hitherto ye were not able to bear it, neither yet now are ye able." 1 Corinthians 3:1-2

Paul was making reference to their spiritual immaturity. They had heard The Word of God but they had not grown in their understanding of it. That is why he called them 'babes in Christ'.

The same point is made in Hebrews. Some people had been exposed to The Word of God often enough that they should be able to teach it to some one else, but they were still babes in Christ themselves.

"For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need that one teach you again which be the first principles of the oracles of God; and are become such as have need of milk, and not of strong meat. For every one that useth milk is unskilled in the word of righteousness; for he is a babe." Hebrews 5:12-13

Are you still just listening to The Word of God every Sunday or are you growing spiritually? After all of your years in church, are you still a babe in Christ?

Are you ready for the meat of The Word, or are you still drinking milk?