Got Milk?

There is nothing better than a tall cold glass of milk with some warm chocolate chip cookies!

Or a cold glass of chocolate milk with a doughnut stick. I also love to fill a glass with ice and pour milk over it and drink it while eating a plate of spaghetti!

When I was young and would visit my Graw on her farm we would go to the barn and watch Pa milk the cows. He had to do it all by hand back then and he would let us try for a little while. He used to squirt milk to all the kittens that would come to the barn at milking time. We would carry the bucket of milk up to the house and Graw would pour it through a cheese cloth. Then she would let the cream rise to the top. We would pour the milk on our cereal each morning for breakfast. Fresh milk tastes very different from the milk that we purchase in the grocery store. In a lot of households, milk is a staple drink. Families drink it at every meal. I'm sure that from Bible time to the present day it is one of the earliest drinks along with water, used every day. Think of the history of milk-people had their own cows and supplied their own homes with milk, cream, and butter. Then when people didn't live on farms the milk man used to bring the milk to their doorstep each day. Now most of us go to the grocery store where the milk has come from farms and been pasteurized before arriving at the store.

Milk is talked about in the Bible and used as an illustration in

1 Peter 2:2-3:

   "As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby:

   If so be ye have tasted that the Lord is gracious."

When we are saved we start to learn about the Lord from His Word. We learn the simpler biblical precepts first-"the milk of the Word". Even though it is consumed by many, we cannot survive on milk alone. 

 As we grow in the Lord, we should desire to learn more about Him through delving deeper in His Word. This can be known as the "meat". This should be our goal so that we would not be able to be compared to the Corinthian Christians when Paul wrote this:

1 Corinthians 3:2 

"I have fed you with milk, and not with meat: for hitherto ye were not able to bear it, neither yet now are ye able."

Make it a meal-Milk & Meat are good!