Spiritual Milk & Meat (My Devotionals)

The Clay and the small rock

As I was reading John 1:35-42... something struck me. Ever since I became a Christian, I always remind myself that we are the clay and our Father in Heaven is the Potter... and through the years of living a life with God and having this awesome relationship with Jesus... I still can't help wondering.. about the name of "Peter" 

As we know, Peter is "Cephas" which means a small rock (Matthew 16:18). And some religious group think that because Jesus gave him a name "Peter" so, peter holds the key to the heaven and he is the rock who build the church. But, for years I have already learned that it was not like that. Jesus is the BIG ROCK (2 Samuel 22:3, Psalm 18:2, Psalm 62:2, Psalm 62:6, Psalm 62:7, Psalm 95:1) while peter is standing upon the rock (he is a small rock standing in a big rock).

But then it finally hit me. It was not just meant for Peter. It was meant for us!

and once we have accepted Jesus in our Lives, we will be like peter. (Clay can become a rock if you don't know that) :) We were only another human piece of clay, but Jesus Christ made a rock out of us ;) 

isn't that cool?

:D

Trivia: Nearly 50x in the new testament peter was called "Simon", while others called him "Peter". And often he is called "Simon Peter" Perhaps the two names suggest a Christian's Two Natures: An Old nature (Simon) that is prone to fail, and a new nature (Peter) that can give victory. 

The Clay that turned into small rock.

"The Spiritual Milk"

 

"The Spiritual Milk"
1st Peter 2:2-3 

I remember the times Philip told me to drink lots of milk but I refused it. Even my parents told me to drink milk and bought me lots and lots of milk when they were here. But what has cause me to stop drinking milk? It was when I was 11 years old and I really like milk that time. But that one instance... I drank my milk and it gave me a stomaches. So I vowed myself not to like Milk anymore.

But no matter how I tried not to like milk... I have to drink milk. I remember the time... when I was persecuted and didn't eat for many days... I had no choice but to drink milk. Even I don't like it, I drank it and because of that milk... I regain strength and I was not hungry for the next 2 days.

Reading this Scripture made me realize... its the same thing with Reading the Bible. Sometimes I don't want to read the Bible because it hurts. But once I read it... I will feel refresh and it will give me more hope. God's word has Life. It gives Life and nourishes Life. Even though we are not yet babies anymore in Spiritual We need to drink our Milk! We should always always have the hunger for God's Words. 

Sometimes Children have no appetite because they have been eating the wrong things. Well same as Christians. They have no strength, nor hope, and sometimes doubt because we are eating the wrong things. Peter warns us to lay aside certain wrong attitudes of heart that would hinder our spiritual growth. 

yeah Matured Christian eat meat. But that doesn't mean we should not drink Milk. 

Basic Christianity is being forgotten when we are matured. But that is wrong. We need sometimes to go back drinking our Milk :D