IT is supper time, and no milk for the farmer’s kittens! Where is the little girl who usually comes at milking-time to fill the empty plate? In a minute, she will hear that hungry cry, and come with a pail of foaming milk for her little pets.
Boys and girls need milk too, or they will not grow up with strong healthy bodies; able to run and play, and help, father and mother. Some of our little friends grow so fast that it keeps mother busy letting down dresses, and trying to make last year’s suits fit extra long arms and legs. It’s fun to find yourself a little taller each year than you were the year before, isn’t it? Mother would surely worry if you did not grow at all!
You see, your body cannot grow without food, and neither can your soul. There is a certain kind of milk which will Make your soul grow, and you will find the name of it in 1 Peter 2:2,2As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby: (1 Peter 2:2) “As newborn babes, desire the sincere, milk of the Word, that ye may grow thereby.” That milk, then, is the Word of God. If you are one of God’s children, you will surely grow if you desire to o have more and more of His precious Word in your heart and in your memory.
The little grasshopper in our picture does not care for any milk, does he? Of course not, because he is not a kitten, and the milk is no food for him. Now there are many people in the world who do not care for the Word of God at all. They cannot understand it, because they are not children of God, and His precious Word means nothing to them.
Have you trusted in Christ as your Own Saviour? Do you know the Lord Jesus as the One who has died to save you? If you do, then you are one of God’s newborn babes, and you need the sincere milk of the Word, that you may grow in the sight of God. If you can-licit read it very well, and you do not hear it often in your home, ask Him to give you more, and He will surely answer your prayer, for He loves to see His children grow.
Messages of the Love of God 1/18/1948