Section Fifteen

Food, Glorious Food

The change of diet when a child grows towards adulthood is used as an analogy. Milk is for children, solid food is for adults. The picture is that in the same way you progress in what you eat, you should also progress in your relationship with God. There should be change and progression, a developing into maturity. Here are three examples: 1. Paul addresses a group of people that he calls ‘infants in Christ’ because of their immaturity. He says that he is feeding them milk and not solid food because of this. 2. The writer of Hebrews tells off a group of people for still needing the basics (which is compared to needing milk). Again, solid food is used as a picture to illustrate that people should be moving on in their understanding. 3. An encouragement to crave ‘spiritual milk’ with the effect that this milk will encourage and foster growing up spiritually.