OUR DAILY BREAD : LONGING TO GROW

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September 6
Friday


LONGING
TO GROW

READ:
1 Peter 1:22-2:3
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As newborn babes,
desire the pure milk
of the Word, that you
may grow thereby.
__1 Peter 2:2
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The 2010 documentary film Babies followed four infants who were born into very different circumstances in Namibia, Mongolia, Tokyo, and San Francisco. There is no narration of dialogue from adults in the film, only sounds babies make as they begin to discover the world into which they have been born. They coo and laugh when they're happy; they cry when thy are hurt or hungry. And all of them like milk! The fascination of the film lies in watching them grow.

As a baby craves milk, followers of Christ are to crave the "pure milk of the Word" that leads to spiritual growth. The apostl Peter says, "Long to grow up into the fullness of your salvation; cry for this as a baby cries for his milk" (1 Peter 2:2 TLB). Peter wrote to encourage a group of Christian-followers who had been scattered by persecution. he urged them to set aside feelings of anger and jealousy toward each other, along with talking one way and living another (v.1), and "as newborn babes, desire the pure milk of the word, that you may grow thereby" (v.2).

The Lord invites us to drink all that we need from His bountiful supply. He loves to watch His children grow!
__David McCasland

```````````````````Lord, I want to be more like you.```````````````````
```````````````Please give me a fervent desire to drink of```````````````
```````````````Your Word. Grow me into a person who`````````````````
```````````````````resembles You in all I say and do.```````````````````
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The more we dig into God's Word, the more we grow.

*******************Today's Bible Reading __ 1 Peter 1:22-23*************************

22 Since you have purified
your souls in obeying the
truth through the Spirit in
sincere love of the brethren,
love one another fervently
with a pure heart, 23 having
been born again, not of
corruptible seed but
incorruptible, through the
word of God which lives
and abides forever,

24 becasue "all flesh is as
grass, and all the glory of
man as the flower of the
grass. The greas withers,
and its flower falls away,

23 but the word of the Lord
endures forever.


Now this is the word
which by the gospel was
preached to you.

1 therefore, laying aside
all malice, all deceit,
hypocrisy, envy, and all evil
speaking, 2 as newborn
babes, desire the pure milk
of the Word, that you may
grow thereby, 3 if indeed
you have tasted that the
Lord is gracious.

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>INSIGHT>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

On the day of Pentecost, Peter, who had earlier denied the Lord
three times, now preached a message that powerfully proclaimed
the cross. As a result, 3,000 people followed the Savior (Acts 2). Like
James, Hebrews, and the letters of John, Peter's letters are listed as
"general" epistles because they were not directed toward Jewish followers of Christ who had been
driven out of Jerusalem due to persecution and had scattered to
Asia Minor (modern-day Turkey) and settled in "Pontus, Galatia,
Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia" (1 Peter 1:1).