“Got Milk?”

Frank Bell

            To me there is nothing better than a tall glass of cold milk to refresh you. If you really get into it you might even come out with a milk mustache. Today with all the advertisement about drinking milk, it has become more of a status icon. You see actors, athletes, and other notable people appearing in advertisements with milk mustaches to encourage people to drink more milk. “Got Milk?” That is the question.

            Peter wrote in I Peter 2:1-2 to the Christians to “lay aside all malice, all deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and all evil speaking, as newborn babes, desire the pure milk of the word…” He was showing them that as a newborn would desire milk so should they as newborns in Christ should desire the “pure milk of the word.” So “Got Milk?” Do you desire milk? As a newborn in Christ we should desire the pure milk of the word but as we grow in Christ we should desire more solid food.

            The Hebrew writer talked about Spiritual immaturity and said to the people that “by this time you ought to be teachers”, but “you need someone to teach you again the first principles of the oracles of God; and you have come to need milk and not solid food.” (Heb. 5:12) If a newborn does not grow as the years go by we would worry that something was wrong. We would take him to all kinds of physicians to get him to grow. If a newborn in Christ does not grow as the years go by we think nothing of it. We do not turn to the Great Physician for guidance.