Baby's Feeding Himself!

Narrator: Chris Genthree

Duration: 1min

• 1 min. read • grade level: 6

1 Timothy 4:13¹³Till I come, give attendance to reading, to exhortation, to doctrine. (1 Timothy 4:13); Jeremiah 15:16¹⁶Thy words were found, and I did eat them; and thy word was unto me the joy and rejoicing of mine heart: for I am called by thy name, O Lord God of hosts. (Jeremiah 15:16); Joshua 1:8⁸This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success. (Joshua 1:8); Psalm 1:2²But his delight is in the law of the Lord; and in his law doth he meditate day and night. (Psalm 1:2); 1 Peter 2:2²As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby: (1 Peter 2:2)

You know it is always regarded a great event in the family when a child can feed itself. It is propped up at table, and at first perhaps it uses the spoon upside down, but by and by it uses it all right, and mother, or perhaps sister, claps her hands and says:

“Just see, baby’s feeding himself!”

Well, what we need as Christians is to be able to feed ourselves. How many there are who sit helpless and listless, with open mouths, hungry for spiritual things, and someone else has to try to feed them, while the Bible is a feast prepared, into which they never venture.

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