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Peter 2:2 – 3, ESV 2 Like newborn infants,
long for the pure spiritual milk, that by it you may grow up into salvation— 3 if indeed you have
tasted that the Lord is good.
As a kid, I
grew up on a little farm in Minnesota. I
cannot tell you that I loved it. This
last statement will be at the disappointment of my step father, but I am just
being honest. I just didn’t look forward
to picking rock in the summer, plowing the fields in the fall, or planting in
the spring. But there is one memory I
have about that little farm that I can never forget. In the early years on the farm, we had sheep.
During the
declining daylight in the autumn, the sheep would start the process of
increasing their population on this earth.
If you do not understand what I mean by that, you can call me and we can
have a chat. When the newly born lamb
was brought into this world, it was cold outside. The conditions were so cold for the new lambs
that we would lay a bunch of hay on the ground, and turn heat lamps on to
ensure the new lamb would be warm. For a
kid that didn't like working on the farm, these conditions were not conducive
to me enjoying it any further, yet, I LOVED this experience.
One of the
chores we had was to give the new born lamb milk from a bottle. We would fill the glass bottle with milk and
put on the artificial nipple. When we
touched the lips of the lamb with the bottle, they would hungrily suck milk as
fast as they could. They would suck so
fast and so hard, it seemed that just as much milk was falling on their face as
was going down their throat. Every
morning was like this. I would put on my
jacket with excitement, go prepare the milk bottles, sit under the heating lamp
with a lamb, and feed that greedy little lamb.
That lamb would drink until it was gone, and to be honest, never looked
satisfied, it looked as if it already anticipated my coming the next morning to
drink greedily from the food source provided to it every morning.
I asked
myself this morning, and hopefully inspire you to contemplate, have I
experienced this type of thirst? Do I
wake up in the mornings, just like the lamb, and anticipate God’s Word? When I wake, are my thoughts captured in a
prayer to God to sustain me throughout the day?
Do I put trust in God that He will come and feed me throughout the
day? When I read the Word of God, does
my thirst cause me to read so much that I consume just as much as I don’t
understand, only not to care, because I will wake up the next morning and read
it again? 1 Peter 2:2 – 3 says 2 Like newborn infants, long for the
pure spiritual milk, that by it you may grow up into salvation— 3 if indeed you have
tasted that the Lord is good.
I have indeed tasted the Words of God. I have indeed been inspired to begin my days
not in anticipation of what I will do today, but in anticipation of what God
will tell me today. I do indeed wake up
in prayer and talk with God throughout the day.
I indeed have tasted the Lord and I can honestly say the Word of God,
trust in God, praise with God, and prayers with God are good. One only needs to make the habit of not
picking up their cell phone in the morning and looking at their emails or checking
the numerous notifications, but meditating on the Verse of the Day. Subscribe to YouVersion on your mobile phone or Bible.com on your desktop. Wake up and read the verse of the day and have a conversation with God. Start your morning in prayer and thoughtful consideration with God. Like the lamb, once you have tasted, you will
notice your anticipation increase.
Dear Yahweh,
My god and my Father.
You are a wondrous and great god.
You are the beginning and the end.
Help me to wake up every morning and continue to thirst after you like
the lamb of my childhood. Help me to see
what you have planned for me, and to walk the path of your will. I ask you LORD to be with anyone who has read
this message and are praying with me today, to hear their prayers and direct
them to Your Word. We know our food has been
prepared for us, and all we need to do is eat it…AMEN!
God’s Peace and Blessings – Joshua
Colossians 3:17 Whatever you do, in word or deed, do
everything in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, giving thanks to God the
Father through Him.
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