Crave Spiritual Milk
"Like newborn babies, crave pure spiritual milk, so that
by it you may grow up in your salvation," - 1 Peter 2:2
In 1978, Steve Bartkowski, quarterback for the Atlanta
Falcons, was beginning his fourth season in the National
Football League. He remembers after one difficult preseason
game: "I told myself "This is it - I have tried as hard as I
can in every game and things still continue to get worse.
There is nothing else I can do. There is no more ability
left in me".
Alone in my room, I recalled that a man once told me how to become a Christian. I bowed my head and repeated a simple prayer. I asked God to put HIS plan to work in my life. I asked Christ to come into my life and take over as Number One. Although, I wasn't sure at that moment what had happened, the one thing I was sure of was the terrific sense of peace that came over me as I prayed. A huge burden had been lifted. I knew I had had an encounter with the living Lord, even though I was not sure how to explain it to anyone."
Steve describes his new attitude toward the Bible: "For
years the Bible was a dead book to me ... like grits without
salt. But after I gave my life to Jesus Christ, it became
alive. I saw that the Bible was God's way of talking to me."
We need to crave our daily intake of the Bible just as we
daily crave food. Today in prayer, ask the Lord to give you
a hunger for His Word and spend some extra time today
reading your Bible.
"Truth is perceived by the intellect, digested by the faith,
and through the constant in-breathing of the divine Spirit
this digested truth is turned into love, which constitutes
the very life and substance of the spiritual man." - G.D.
Watson
God's Word: "The unfolding of your words gives light; it
gives understanding to the simple. I open my mouth and pant,
longing for your commands." - Psalm 119:130-131
By Peter Kennedy, Copyright 2003, Devotional E-Mail
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