"Like newborn babies, you must crave pure spiritual milk so that you
will grow into a full experience of salvation. Cry out for this nourishment, now that you
have had a taste of the Lord's kindness."
(vs. 2-3)
I find that its way to easy to NOT look into God's word, to NOT pray, to let the world and our own desires trump what we need to do to stay pure and growing in our relationship with God. The 'craving' to grow in God, is partly due to discipline, and our need to better ourselves. We have had a taste of the goodness of God, what it's like to have God work in our lives .. the Mountain top experience as it were. But the test of our faith comes when we need to live out that faith, that desire to grow even when we don't necessarily feel that spiritual.
We can do a few things to combat this, whether its accountability with someone else, setting up a routine, or even as these verses mention ... thinking about the kindness of God already in our lives. Knowing what God has done, and our deep yearning to see him continue to do it.
2:1 says "So get rid of all evil behavior. Be done with all deceit, hypocrisy, jealousy, and all unkind speech." All these things change through the transformation that God does in our lives the more we crave his righteousness.
I enjoy the book by Ed Dobson "The Year of Living like Jesus", were he tried his best for one year to live as Jesus would live. The author even used beads as a way to meditate on God's word, and to help him change his mindset. Now I'm not suggesting that everyone get prayer beads, but its a great example of someone that craved God's heart. Changing something in our lives that helps to focus on Christ.
May we have heart that craves after God's righteousness, that longs to follow Christ, that waits anticipation for what God wants to do in our lives.
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