Hungering for God's Word

A baby won't rest until its hunger is satisfied. It's irrelevant that mummy's been up all day and is tired. 3 am means nothing. When a baby is ready to eat, the world stops.

Peter referred to God's Word as 'pure milk,' which means undiluted, the real stuff. As the old commercials used to say: 'no substitutes added.' Pure milk is the opposite of a dummy, which looks real but provides no nourishment. Too many of us are spiritually undernourished because we're feeding on substitutes. We're teething on dummies instead of drinking the pure milk of the Word. No baby ever grew feeding on a dummy. Don't get fooled into accepting anything but the authentic, undiluted truth of Scripture.

1Peter 2:2 As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby:

What's more, the only truth that will cause you to grow is the truth that's heard - and put into action. And notice something else: babies don't drink all the milk they can in two hours on Sunday morning. Yet that's what we do, and then we wonder why we're not growing in God. Babies eat regularly for one simple reason -they're hungry.

Why don't we feed on God's Word more than we do? Either because we aren't hungry for it, or because we've been trying to satisfy our hunger with dummies and substitutes. Understand this: without a daily diet of God's Word you'll end up weak and vulnerable to defeat! Only when you want to hear from God through His Word more than you want to eat, are you on your way to developing a healthy hunger for the Scriptures.