Get off the bottle!
The DNA of Discipleship: Divine Truth 1
I gave you milk, not solid food, for you were not yet ready for it. Indeed, you are still not ready.
1 Corinthians 3:2
If bottle feeding went on permanently throughout a person’s life, it would be very odd. Imagine a group of 60 year olds drinking milk from baby bottles? Normally babies, around 6 months of age, learn to eat solid foods little by little. They start with soft stuff. It is messy. They squish it with their fingers and rub it on their hair. Food gets all over the place. But they eventually learn to feed themselves.
We need to do the same in discipleship. You may start with the short verses, which is all you need. Later you will want to read the whole chapter or to understand what that book of the Bible says. At some point you will want to read through the whole Bible. This is a natural part of the growing process. You can select the passage reference and access the whole chapter to read the verse in context. Try it when you feel a need for more and experiment with what works the best.
For Reflection:
- Do you think you should be eating solid food from the Scriptures? (It is perfectly fine to realize you are not ready for that yet.)
- How have you experienced feeding yourself in the Scriptures?
Make Life Count:
- Ask God for His plan to learn the Scriptures considering where you are right now.
- Do you know how to feed yourself from the Scriptures? What questions do you have?
Hungry for More?
- Check out these resources:
Navigators Inductive Bible Study
Learning to feed ourselves… together…
