Spiritual milk? Or spiritual meat?

It is estimated that worldwide, on any given day, 465 Christians are martyred for their faith.

According to Bill Bright, 2% of American Christians share their faith with others.

Whether we believe that Christ wll return tomorrow, next month, or in 100 years, we are closer to that glorious day today than we were yesterday.

We all know people who are not saved. They're everywhere. So why are 98% of American Christians NOT sharing their faith with those people? What ARE they doing with God's time?

What are YOU doing with God's time? Are you witnessing to people who do not know the Lord? Are you living out what Jesus Christ, in his last command to us, told us we must do?

"...as newborn babes, desire the pure milk of the word, that you may grow thereby, if indeed you have tasted that the Lord is gracious." -- 1 Peter 2:2-3

When we are born again, we are infants. Infants need nothing more than milk in order to thrive. It is fine for a 6-week old infant to be nourished only by milk, but we don't often see 6-year olds who still don't eat solid foods, do we? A child would die of malnutrition if he didn't have solid food at some point.

"Now so it was that after three days they found Him in the temple, sitting in the midst of the teachers, both listening to them and asking them questions." -- Luke 2:46

Eventually, we grow into adolescence. By now, we've been eating solids for awhile. In fact, we are eating just about everything; we seem to be always hungry. This is a good thing, because we are growing mightily, and we need all the nourishment we can get. But keep in mind that adolescents eat meat as well as Big Macs and other "fast food" that does little to satisfy our nourishment needs. But the main things we do in adolescence are these: We ask a lot of questions and we search for answers. If we don't get to adolescence, we can never get to maturity, so this one is important. Adolescents are not independent yet. They want to be, and they try to be, but they need seasoning before they can go out on their own. The searching and learning eventually gives way to maturity.

"...till we all come to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a perfect man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ; that we should no longer be children, tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in the cunning craftiness of deceitful plotting, but, speaking the truth in love, may grow up in all things into Him who is the head-Christ- from whom the whole body, joined and knit together by what every joint supplies, according to the effective working by which every part does its share, causes growth of the body for the edifying of itself in love." -- Ephesians 4:13-16

Maturity is the stage in life when we are able to grow in the knowledge of God and accept the full measure of Christ. Like all mature humans, certain things are expected of us by our Father. He expects us to communicate with and about Him, and to obey Him. He expects us to take care of the gifts He gave us and to use them as He would see fit, and to work toward fulfilling His will for us.