1 Peter 2:2
"Like newborn babies, crave pure spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow up in your salvation."
My beautiful twin daughters were born in September, and with them came a whole new understanding of this verse.
You see, my girls don't occasionally think milk is a nice thing to have. They don't want one bottle before bed. As newborns, their entire lives revolved around feeding time. They ate every three hours, and at first it took two hours to get them fed. And then they would sleep until it was time to eat again. They can't even sleep through the night without waking up for a bottle.
As they get older they want more and more, too. Just last night, Amber did not want to stop eating when she'd had enough. I had to distract her to keep her from making herself sick!
This type of an attitude and appetite really does lead to some amazing growth. One of them now weighs more than they both did just 3 months ago!
All that is fine, but I ask myself, "Is it really possible to crave spiritual nourishment like that? How would I satiate that type of craving?"
I can't say I'm at the point where I crave to read the Bible, or where I crave interaction with God like that. In the past it has been true for me that the more read/pray/fellowship, the more I want to read/pray/fellowship. Hopefully this year I will become a closer mirror of that analogy.
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