No Longer Infants

Hebrews 4:
v. 12: For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you again the basic principles of God's revelation. You need milk not solid food.
v. 13: Now everyone who lives on milk is inexperienced with the message about righteousness, because he is an infant.
v. 14: But solid food is for the mature - for those whose senses have been trained to distinguish between good and evil


Chelsi Newborn


When my daughter Chelsi was an infant, she had  such a hard time taking formula. After just one ounce, BLAH!! Up it would come. This went on for quite awhile. We'd have to burp her every ounce and every time up it would come. I'm sure she was keeping some of it because she was satisfied and was growing. After awhile, formula wasn't enough. We slowly introduced solid food, starting with a tablespoon of runny, flavorless rice cereal.

6 months old

After awhile, we introduced veggie baby food. What a thrill to see her face light up with the taste of carrots, peas and sweet potatoes. "Mmmm!!" she'd hum as she ate each spoonful. Then it was time for the sweet tastes of applesauce and banana baby food. Eventually, we went from strained meat to pasta to solid foods.

It was a long process but today she is eating solid foods...some of which I'd never eat. 

What would have happened if I had not taken the time and effort to introduce new foods and just left her at the formula or runny, flavorless rice cereal stages?? Truthfully, she would have never developed and Child Protective Services would have taken her away from me. Why?? Because she would have died.

Our growth and development in our walk with God is no different. If after we accept Christ, we simply warm a pew every Sunday morning, we will never develop...or worse yet, we will die in our walk with God. We need to feed on God's word every day. We need to get to the point where it is not always spoon fed to us, but we hold the utensil and feed ourselves. We need to seek more and more intimacy with God so that we know His voice when He speaks to us. We need to be able to stand our ground when Satan launches an attack, by skillfully wielding the sword of the Spirit (the word of God) and having a listening ear to our Commander.

Don't remain an infant in your walk with God. There is so much flavor in a life devoted to Him.

PS Sorry Chels, I had to make a point.