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Are You A Babe?

When I read the following quote from Edmund Clowney, in his commentary on I Peter, I readily connected to his point: “The wonder of a mother at the birth of a child becomes delight at the readiness of her infant to feed. Any delay at feeding-time brings a powerful reaction from the tiny person. For an infant, milk is not a fringe benefit.” I have seen this image played out in my own little family many times in the past seven weeks:

Like newborn infants, long for the pure spiritual milk, that by it you may grow up into salvation. -I Peter 2:2

“Peter writes to young churches; he has in view many who have only recently confessed their faith in Christ and been baptized. Some were no doubt senior citizens; they are nevertheless newborn in Christ. They must have an infant’s desperate desire for basic nourishment.”

O that we could learn to be childlike in our hunger for the deep things of God’s Word!