Eat Meat

You are like babies who need milk and cannot eat solid food. For someone who lives on milk is still an infant and doesn’t know how to do what is right. Solid food is for those who are mature, who through training have the skill to recognize the difference between right and wrong.

Hebrews 5:12–14 NLT

There’s nothing like a properly cooked piece of meat. After we have eaten it, we feel full and satisfied. As we grow and get older, our eating habits change and we adjust. What made us feel full at one year old barely makes a dent in our hunger when we are seven. And when we are seventeen? Forget it. Keeping up with that appetite is nearly impossible!

The same is true with spiritual nourishment. When we were young, we received spiritual milk; we were introduced to people like Adam and Eve, Noah, Moses, Samson, King David, Jesus, Mary, and perhaps the disciples, as well as basic Bible stories. But as we got older, we started digging into “meatier” concepts like sin, salvation, and the Trinity. We needed to learn the difference between right and wrong, true and false. What have you been feeding yourself lately? Are you still drinking from a bottle, or do you have your steak knife ready?

God, help me see how “hungry” I am, and to see that what I need is more of you. Let me be unsatisfied with a little bit of spiritual food and allow me to feast on the meat of your Word and be completely filled.

Minister (E) De’Angelo Ponder