Dec 6

“I have fed you with milk, and not with meat: ….. not able to bear it…..” 1Corinthians 3:2

Carnality will stunt spiritual growth. When as Christians we give allegiance or place to carnality and fleshly interests, we become dull spiritually, disinterested in feeding on the spiritual diet of prayer and God’s Word and we can thus retard our spiritual growth. A baby is justified by his age to only drink milk and being unable to chew solids, but doctors are often concerned when a child has grown sufficiently to ingest more than milk and will not tolerate solid food. Certainly a healthy grown up with a good set of teeth cannot but do damage if he is not eating the diet suitable for his age. It is so in the spiritual sense also. The Apostle Paul expressed concern when he found himself dealing with believers who were not able to feed on and digest the food appropriate to their age in the Lord! He diagnosed the cause of their problem as carnality and prescribed cleaning their lives of all the things which violated their bodies as temples of God’s Spirit. Replacing true spirituality, worship and prayer with empty religious form and ceremony while feeding on the things of the world, will surely do damage to the quality of our relationship with the Lord. It will kill our hunger for spiritual things and impede our spiritual acumen.


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