Are You a Baby?
For though by this time you ought to be teachers, 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. For everyone who partakes only of milk is unskilled in the word of righteousness, for he is a babe. But solid food belongs to those who are of full age, that is, those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil. – Hebrews 5:12-14 NKJV.
I fed you with milk and not with solid food; for until now you were not able to receive it, and even now you are still not able. – 1 Corinthians 3:2 NKJV.
Therefore, laying aside all malice, all deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and all evil speaking, as newborn babes, desire the pure milk of the word, that you may grow thereby, if indeed you have tasted that the Lord is gracious. 1 Peter 2:1-3 NKJV.
A superbaby, well, a super toddler may be alive and well living in India and the evidence is seen by what happened in the state of Bihar. The toddler, two-year-old, Govinda Kumar, felt the three-foot-long cobra wrapping about his hands. What toddler would do what he did next or anyone for that matter? Govinda grabbed the cobra biting down on the snake’s head killing it. The boy did pass out from the venom of the snake, but he was rushed to a nearby health center where he was released 48 hours later having no permanent injuries from the encounter. (Strange Days 08.02.25)
It must have been beyond frustrating for the apostle Paul and other apostles to see those who had been born again into the Kingdom of God still acting like babies. Hard to imagine the result of the prayers of those great men of God for those baby Christians.
For the pastors of today it is no less frustrating and if Paul and Peter and the writer of Hebrews couldn’t inspire growth toward maturity in believers, how can we inspire the baby Christians of today to grow in the faith? The answer is only through the intervention and power of God.
My advice to the baby Christians of today is to not wait for the intervention of God to spur you on to maturity. God intervened in my life early in our marriage when my wife left me for a week and it drove me to my knees in prayer. God intervened in my life when I was working at one of my first jobs in the oilfield that I hated and was not doing very good job of living like I should. God sent me a letter which warned about the danger of sin and the damage sin can do. The result was I fell to my knees in prayer and repentance. Two weeks later I had a Job that was exponentially better than the I had before. Those are just two of the times that God intervened to make course corrections in my life.
If you are still a baby Christian the apostle Peter gives some good advice: “laying aside all malice, all deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and all evil speaking, as newborn babes, desire the pure milk of the word, that you may grow thereby….” Do what you know you ought to do: Read, study and memorize the Word of God; be faithful in attending a Bible believing church; and pray without ceasing. You don’t want to wait for a course correction! Instead, be a superbaby growing rapidly into the mature believer you know God wants you to be.