Got Milk?

My son likes milk.

Well, I guess it's best to say he likes formula.  He drinks the stuff constantly.  Morning, noon and night that boy has a bottle all the time.  We order large cans of formula monthly and each month we use them up.

He loves the stuff.

Of course, he's an infant.  Babies drink milk.  He doesn't have teeth (at least not yet) so steak and bacon is out of the question.  So he drinks milk because that's what babies use for nourishment.  That formula provides everything he needs to grow and develop. (And trust me, he grows a lot.)

Peter compared the Word of God with milk for babies in 1 Peter 2:1-3.  He says like babies crave milk we should crave the Word of God.

Unfortunately, times haven't changed all that much.  He admonishes believers to crave the word then because they weren't reading it.  The same is true today.

A recent study of Christians found that only 19 percent read the Bible daily.  Only 25 percent read it weekly.  So less than half of all Christians read the Bible weekly.  Yet we claim to follow its truths and teachings.

Here's the deal:  if we don't read the Bible we don't know what God has in store for us.  It is the very thoughts of God and if we choose not to read it, we will never know what God thinks about our situations.  God, in his Bible, is very clear.  He tells us what he thinks.  We may not always like what he says, but he never pulls punches.

Do you want a meaningful relationship with God?  Read his word.  It's the only way to connect with the very thoughts of our creator.