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"Grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. " 

2 Peter 3:18 
MIDNIGHT FEEDING

Read It: 1 Peter 2:2-3
I love the way Peter describes the desire we should have for the nourishment by which we grow in our Christian lives. The apostle says we should desire the Word of God the way a newborn baby desires milk. Now how does a baby desire milk? With an intensity that you can't imagine until you've heard that midnight cry. See, when a baby gets hungry, everything else is irrelevant: the time, the fact that Mom and Dad worked hard all day and are tired, the fact that we just went through this drill a few hours earlier. A baby's agenda is about as focused and uncluttered as you can get.

He wants to eat -now If the urge is not satisfied, somebody's ears are going to pay the price. Have you ever been so hungry for the Word of God that you couldn't sleep until you had chowed down on it for a while? When was the last time your spiritual stomach growled so bad at midnight that you just had to get up for a midnight feeding on the truth of God? Those are convicting questions for all of us, so let's move on. I'm convinced vinced that the reason we as Christians too often display malice and envy and slander and all that other junk in verse 1 is that we are feeding ourselves selves on spiritual junk food. Junk food is designed to fill a deep need with a quick fix that carries you for a while but doesn't provide any real nourishment. ishment. What a contrast to the pure, unadulterated, unmixed Word Peter talks about here. You know, not only can you not ignore a baby's hunger, but you can't fool a baby either. Start mixing stuff into that formula that isn't designed to be there, and either that baby's taste buds or his sensitive stomach will expel that mess. Once you've tasted the good stuff, the real thing, you don't want the junk food. And you have tasted the good stuff, by the way. That's the idea of the "if" in verse 3, which means since. It's a statement of fact, not doubt. You've had the real thing. Can your spiritual taste buds still tell the difference? ference? Think About It Since you have tasted God's goodness in salvation, don't settle for spiritual junk food.