Good Fruit or Just Rotten

Like John we are to be re-provers by office and by that which God provides in our hearts to speak: 2 Timothy 3:16 All Scripture is given by inspiration of reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness, 17 that the man of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work.

For Understanding: Prov. 10:13 Wisdom is found on the lips of him who has understanding, but a rod is for the back of him who is devoid of understanding. Prov. 13:15 Good understanding gains favor, but the way of the unfaithful is hard. Understanding: 7922 O.T. )say—kel….to have prudence, to have discretion, being wise.

Unfaithful: are those with no real relationship, they move on a whim, when catastrophe or sudden illness is seen, many will leave. They shift to the winds of caprice and self-indulgence! Many just want to be heroes with no work or detail of domestic life appearing!

WISDOM and Revelation…. The Holy Spirit is called the Spirit of wisdom and revelation. (Eph 1:17) that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Him. Revelation knowledge penetrates right to the heart of man, it is the Word of God with the anointing of the Holy Spirit. Even Satan can quote scriptures but it is the Holy Spirit that makes God’s Word relevant in Love to the receiver.  If we just operate based on wisdom, we become an old wineskin that cannot take in the new wine, the present Word of the Lord. Without revelation, we will merely maintain our ministries and not truly operate in Kingdom advancement. We must continuously come to God for fresh truth so that our youth is renewed like the eagle (Psalm 103:5). This heart posture will keep us willing to break out of the mold and jump off new cliffs into deeper waters that He can release through us.

Delivered to the Kingdom of Heaven, Redemption, to Being Filled with all His wisdom and His spiritual understanding: Colossians 1:9-14   NKJV  9 For this reason, we  also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you and to ask that you may be filled with knowledge of His will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding.  10 that you may walk worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing Him, being fruitful in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God, 11 strengthened with all might according to His glorious power, for all patience and longsuffering with joy, 12 giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified us to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in the  light. 13 He has delivered us from the power of darkness and conveyed us into  the kingdom of the Son he loves, 14 in whom we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins.  

Endurance: having constancy in our lives with God and His Word

1.)           Living a life worthy of the Lord

2.)           Pleasing Him in every way

3.)            Bearing fruit in every good work, growing in the knowledge of God

4.)           Strengthened with power according to His might

We gain discernment when we spend time with God and His Word:                             

Gaining Discernment Through God’s Word : Heb. 5:11-14    NKJV  11  Of whom We have much to say and hard to explain since you have become dull of hearing.  12 for though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you the principles of the oracles of God; & you have come to need milk &  not solid food. 13 for everyone who partakes only of milk is unskilled in the word of righteousness, for he is a babe. 14 But solid food belongs to those who are of full age, that is, those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil. 

Motivated by God’s will and Not Our Opinion: Influence of the Unkind: From James 3:15 good conduct done in wisdom…15 This wisdom does not descend from above, but is earthly, sensual, demonic. ( it is of the flesh)

1.)            But some operated out of the bitter envy: they are fierce, with the contemptuous spirit, while attempting or pretending to defend true religion but in truth have no religion.

2.)           They profess by lying against the truth. 3.             God is not the author of worldly wisdom!  The world’s wisdom is bitter-not meek. They live for the moment……….that which is sensual!   Look at that of Salome in this passage: : Matthew 14:3-12 NJKV 3 For Herod had laid hold of John & bound him, & put him in prison for the sake of Herodias, his brother Philip’s wife. 4 Because John had said to him, “It is not lawful for you to have her.” 5 And although he wanted to put him to death, he feared the multitude, because they counted him as a prophet. 6 But when Herod’s birthday was celebrated, the daughter of Herodias danced before them & pleased Herod. 7 Therefore he promised with an oath to give her whatever she might ask. 8 So she, having been prompted by her mother, said, “Give me John the Baptist’s head here on a platter.” 9 And the king was sorry; nevertheless because of the oaths & because of who sat with him, he commanded it to be given to her.10 So he sent & had John beheaded in prison. 11 And his head was brought on a platter & given to the girl, & she brought it to her mother. 12 Then his disciples came & took away the body & buried it, & went away & told Jesus.

1)            Immorality was found among Herod & Herodias; lust bound him to more oppressed and dark tastes leading to murder

2)            We too should tell Jesus when there are times of persecution, oppression, suffering and sorrow when seeing it among our peers! Do we mention it?

3)            Herodias’ daughter Salome danced a most provocative dance before this king

4)            Considered the minor ruler over Galilee: Herod Antipas; Mark 6:17-27 NKJV 17 For Herod himself had sent & laid hold of John, & bound him in prison for the sake of Herodias, his brother Philip’s wife; for he had married her. 18 Because John had said to Herod, “It is not lawful for you to have your brother’s wife; for he had married her. 19 Therefore Herodias held it against him & wanted to kill him, but she could not; 20 for Herod feared John, knowing that he was a just and holy man, & he protected him. And when he heard him, he did many things, & heard him gladly.

5)            This same king Herod had seduced his niece Herodias, who was married to Herod’s brother Philip. He the face of evil persuaded her to divorce her husband & marry him. He in turn divorced his own wife!

So their influence is demonical inspired, and maintained by the influence of the demons. That is the reason they call it demonic! It is self-seeking, confused and evil and they bring other evil with them! This is ultimately the devilish source indicating human cooperation.

In this passage Herod hears of Jesus & thinks of John the Baptist who had beheaded to please Salome. Mark 6: 21 Then the opportune day came when Herod on his birthday gave a feast for his nobles, the high officers, & the chief men of Galilee. 22 And when Herodias’ daughter herself came in & danced, & pleased Herod & those who sat with him, the king said to the girl. “Ask me whatever you want, & I will give it to you.” 23 He also swore to her, “Whatever you ask me, I will give you, up to half my kingdom.” 24 So she went out & said to her mother, “What shall I ask?” And she said, “The head of John the Baptist.”

25 Immediately she came in with haste to the king & asked, saying, “I want you to give me at once the head of John the Baptist on a platter.” 26 And the king was exceedingly sorry; yet because of the oaths & because of those who sat with him, he did not want to refuse her. 27 Immediately the king sent an executioner & commanded his head to be brought. And he went & beheaded him in prison, 28 brought his head on a platter & gave it to the girl; & the girl gave it to her mother.

At the time of John’s Execution: it was John the Baptist Who had reproved Herod for taking Herodias as his wife, since she was married to his brother Philip. Herodias hated John the Baptist for trying to destroy what she valued but it was Herod who thwarted her plans because he had respected John & had received from him daily: That which is evil always hate the light & the truth it brings!

The influence Herodias gave to Salome was of the flesh and sexual. He had her daughter to dance and please Herod. And him the pushover asked what he might do for her. He swore to her, “Whatever you ask me, I will give you, up to half my kingdom.” This is a bad demonical inspired influence where demons perform!

NO Opinions: No Pushing the Envelope to Get our Way…..           Will not be overbearing in conversation: Proverbs 14:16  NKJV A wise man fears and departs from evil, but a fool rages and is self-confident.    Proverbs 21:24 NKJV A proud and haughty man---“Scoffer is his name; He acts with arrogant pride.   ………….When a person says that they have no fear of evil in them; they do not care about living godly lives. There are no RULES! Many today claim to live as Christians but they do not fear God. They will give no honor or reverence to Him. But we are told to depart from evil!

Proverbs 21:30 NKJV there is no wisdom or understanding or counsel against the LORD. Deliberately determined to do what is wrong is death to those who do it; We have seen this come from Adam and Eve and it is happening in the streets of America today. Deliberately choosing to one’s own agenda is death indeed! Anything outside what God purposed is one choosing to themselves in due to the world’s ways. To me that is just dangerous and so wrong to take yourself and your loved ones down the one-way path to hell and destruction!

In applying God’s word to our lives, we seek to place His will over our own will. Like Jesus, not our will but yours Father be done on earth as it is in Heaven.  In applying that word, we find that which is taking us in strength.  Like from Proverbs 19:21 that there are many plans in a man’s heart, nevertheless the LORD’S counsel---that will stand.  That we reject the counsel of the ungodly and hear the LORD’S counsel above all others. We also confess that we are instructed even as when we are sleeping and in the morning, that we pray to do what is right rather than follow the leading of our own flesh. We also speak out that the wisdom of this world is foolishness with You, Lord (1 Corinthians 3:19)  and may we not buy into it, but keep our eyes on You and have ears to hear Your voice.

May we not be presumptuous in any step we take, we must know our steps to be ordered of the Lord and not to make adjustments to His word as we see fit. HE is the healer, the ONE worthy to receive honor and praise for the great sacrifice to see us get not death, but life everlasting.

Romans 6:21-23 …….What fruit did you have then in the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death. 22 But now having been set free from sin,  & having become slaves of God, you have your fruit to holiness, & the end, everlasting life. 23 For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

A changed heart is a seeking heart, not of worldly things that are passing away, but a seeking Heart is transparent, it is one that reflects life in Christ Jesus.  Jesus must not only be Savior , He must also be our Lord. Not being obedient to His word brings unwelcome consequences.  We are not saved by the admission of guilt, nor are we saved because we attend church every week. In God’s kindness and mercy, salvation that is true comes from accurately understanding the cost to save and the cost required to be saved. May our lives truly exhibit change that is of a holy life abounding in God’s grace not to sin but to really live a life in Him. Amen.

Are we like Mary, the mother of Jesus? Or are we like Herodias influencing our daughter into the wrong thing of the flesh creature? Are we encouraging our young sons to be men and not drag-queens? Are we encouraging our children to be all God called them in His word?

Each of us are responsible for spiritual warfare and anticipated victories!  Yet even in this hour, the presence of evil struggles for survival.  We do battle in faith and with faithfulness to the Lord; it is His ultimate kingdom we live in; Holy Spirit is preparing us even now for these kingdom victories today: Daniel 7:21-22 NKJV “I was watching; & the same horn was making war against the saints, & prevailing against them, 22 until the Ancient of Days came, & a judgment was made in favor of the saints of the most High, &the time came for the saints to possess the kingdom. God overrules all other thrones.

Jesus spoke this in Matt. 7:15-23 NKJV “Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravenous wolves. 16” You will know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes from thorn-bushes or figs from thistles? 17 Even so, every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit.

Matthew 7:  18 A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a bad tree bear good fruit. 19” Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. 20 “Therefore by their fruits you will know them.”

 Matthew 7: 21 “ Not everyone who says to Me, “Lord, Lord,’ shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in heaven. 22 Many will say to me in that day, ‘Lord Lord, have we not prophesied in Your Name, cast out demons in Your name, & done many wonders in Your name?”23 “And then I will declare to them, “I never knew you; depart from Me you who practice lawlessness!”     

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Feeding Those 5000

 

I have been so captured by the feeding of the 5,000. Have been reading the Expositors Bible Commentary on this passage. And what I have seen from the other passages they give, is that too many people try to relate this back to Moses and the giving for the Manna from heaven. They were not to keep any extra portion, but only what they required for the day. But in Matthew 14, the fragments are to be kept and I kept noticing of what was written: Jesus ministered the meal, and He ministered the process! In a Voice of Prayer teaching coming up, Jesus was the HOST! ( Blessed, Broken, Given, and Divided)

In Mark 6,He called ORDER for all to be seated in 100’s and 50’s. He tells the disciples to give them something. In this situation, Jesus cannot be reduced to the Prophet, a rabbi, or teacher of the law. THIS is God on the scene!

Another thing I took note of, was Moses was the Leader called by God to lead a nation out of Egypt. Jesus is the Leader, Who leads as Savior, Redeemer, the Lamb of God for sacrifice in taking the sins of man (of the world). Jesus would lead us to heaven, not across the pond to England, or Wales, but lead us home in Him! Where He is, there we are to be also! I also meditate on the truth that Moses lead a million out of Egypt, and how many actually took the promised land that was spoken about? What was the number who rebelled in the desert and would not go into the land God had given them?

Also, many churches gather to eat a meal together, like they did in the desert! They gather to eat and remember. Yet what are they remembering? Jesus, the Host in that back country place, had the disciples to bring what they had in hand. Jesus, the Host took the bread and broke it as He blessed it. He took the fish and distributed. He did not break the fish! Only the bread is broken.

Awesome words indeed, and if we hear them as we read and mediate them: what was of the identified bread: a loaf of barley, the food of the poor.

Matthew 14:13-21 When Jesus heard it ( the death of John His cousin), He departed from there by boat to a deserted place by Himself. But when He saw a great multitude; and He  was moved with compassion for the, and healed their sick. 15 When it was evening, His disciples came to Him, saying, “This is a deserted place, and the hour is already late. Send the multitudes away, that they may go into the villages and buy themselves food.” 16 But Jesus said to them, “They do not need to go away. You give them something to eat.” 17 and they said to Him, “We have been here only five loaves and two fish.”

In Matthew 14:19 Then He commanded the multitudes to sit down on the grass. And he took the five loves and the two fish, and looking up to heaven, He blessed and broke and gave the loaves to the disciples; and the disciples gave to the multitudes. 20 So they all ate and were filled and they took up twelve baskets full of the fragments that remained. 21 Now those who had eaten were about five thousand men, besides women and children.

He Who is Bread took bread, blessed it and broke it. And it was given to the multitude. We cannot give to another what has not been blessed by God. What has been broken is what is multitude in the word of truth where Jesus is manifested and power of the Holy Spirit observed. It is demonstration of the Spirit and power.

                                                                                                 

From this passage, Jesus would reveal He would be the broken bread: John 6:22-71….John 6:35 I am the bread of life. He who comes to Me shall never hunger and he who believes in Me shall never thirst.  

John 6: 28-40 NKJV Then they said to Him, “What shall we do, that we may work the works of God?” 29 Jesus answered & said to them, “This is the work of God, that you believe in Him whom He sent.” 30 Therefore they said to Him, “What sign will You perform then, that we may see it & believe You?” What work will You do? 31 Our fathers ate manna in the desert; as it is written, ‘He gave them bread from heaven to eat.” 32 Then Jesus said to them, “Most assuredly, I say to you, Moses did not give you the bread from heaven, but My Father gives you the true bread from heaven. 33 For the bread of God is He who comes down from heaven & gives life to the world.” 34 Then they said to Him, “Lord, give us this bread always.”    

 

True bread from heaven: Jesus! This is not just about a loaf of bread but of life and joy in the peace with God!  John 6:48 I am the bread of life. 49 Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness and are dead. 50 This is the bread which comes down from heaven, that one may eat of it and not die. 51 I am the living bread which came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever, and the bread that I shall give is My flesh, which I shall give for the life of the world.” 

Loaves and 2 fish He divided among them. Yes there are five loaves and 2 fish: Mark 6:39-44  39 Then he commanded them to make them all sit down in groups on the green grass. 40 So they sat down in ranks, in 100’s & in 50's. 41& when he had taken the 5 loaves & the 2 fish, he looked up to heaven, blessed & broke the loaves, & gave them to his disciples to set before them, & the 2 fish He divided among them all.42 So they all ate & were filled 43 & they took up 12 baskets full of fragments of the fish.4 Now those who had eat the loaves were about 5,000 men.

Jesus gave to the “poor”. When poor is used this way, it means "to be destitute, without resources; weak, powerless; spiritually bankrupt." Being poor in spirit is the platform on which is built all of the other beautiful attitudes that please God and motivate Him to respond with spiritual and physical blessings. Our being poor in spirit is the recognition of our spiritual need that causes us to cry out to God for what He can and will supply. For us, we can testify how our lives have changed in just twenty five years. We feed others with that which God has fed us.

Twelve baskets full held the remaining fragments of bread and fish. Amazing grace, how sweet the sound, a sound of enough, being full, and twelve baskets remaining, what may be considered scraps, leftovers and still enough to carry with you for later. Understand that Barley was for the poor! And Jesus the Host is our supply! May this recognition be yours in knowing about God from the proper perspective, causing you to give Him praise and thanksgiving. May you see Him for what He is and what He has and makes you long to be the same, just as the financially poor see and desire to be like the rich in Christ Jesus. For death could not hold Him. The tomb could not contain Him: He is greater and He is the same yesterday, today and forever. Amen.

May we influence others this year: in a field, in a barn, in a park, or maybe a church! For our walk is one in demonstration of the Spirit and power. We will speak what the Lord has done for us. ( Watch Voice of Prayer for the teaching this week:  Blessed, Broken, Given and Divided)

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Soylent Green

Is it 2022?

Many of those who read this blog may not have heard of Soylent Green. Although a movie, and thinking I remember it did well at the box office on the sale of tickets in 1973. This movie starred Charlton Heston and it was a future plot for mankind.  I did not see it but heard about from others who went to see it! This movie also had starring in it: Edward G. Robinson, Brock Peters and Chuck Connors. As it was released in 1973, my sister and brother-in-law had gone to see it and had recommended it to us. But the things she told me without giving up the details at the end had me wondering how man would be living when the earth is so fully populated with man and no place to farm the land!

This week I had received an urgent call from a lady I know and she wanted to come over to give me some details of this event she had attended over the weekend. My earliest time free was of course yesterday, the middle of the week and I waited for her all morning. Was thinking she probably got on a firmer footing in God's word and did not need any encouragement and so she had skipped our meeting if they called her in to work! It was later in the day as I studied over the word for a teaching that I also prayed, not only for us, those we know, but also for those who receive this blog and the teachings we send out for God's glory that God our Father would have His way in them by His Spirit. In praying, I was also seeking that His glory would come on earth, that His will would be done in those who are called His and that they would come to that place of safety and comfort to stay out of harm's way of those seeking or jockeying for positions especially with the microphone. 

I meditated on some scripture and came back to the thought of so many feasting on the false narrative today, and so many not knowing truly God's will and how He operates through men and women who devote their lives to serving Him, could most likely miss Him, being lost in the false, the fraudulent and empty talk of others. 
 Again I was taken back again in my thinking of the year 1973 and this movie. It would be some twenty years later when I could talk myself into watching Soylent Green. I had remembered some descriptive words that my sister spoke that alerted me to some things that might prove to be unnerving for the twentieth century. Well, we have come into the twenty-first century and I am amazed still what people consider safe to eat, and safe to participate in like "recreational marijuana". REALLY? 
If you have not seen this move called Soylent Green, then please stop here at once, and see it before reading on. For if you want details of a future land where people have no food and only darkness rules the land with funky ideas of how they might create food to eat then this drama is for you. It is the year 2022 and people are still requiring food to eat!

This Heston fellow is investigating a death of the head person at this corporation and as he searches for clues into this man's death, he finds out some alarming things about this place that is producing a new foodstuff! And it is interesting how it is processed, but Soylent Green turns out to be people who have died and are now being made into a food commodity for other people to use in their diet. 

The most interesting thing is the elderly, growing close to their exit time, go to this center to sign up for a specific viewing of about an hour to revisit the world they knew as a youth. And as the child who with a zest for life ran through those beautiful fields, they have a time even though short to revisit a day in the sun. They have this opportunity to remember things as they view the different scenery's as wildlife standing in that field, waterfalls cascading into rapidly moving rivers that end serenely in the lowest parts of the canyons. In this scene, the small birds and animals appear for a drink from the inviting coolness and pleasant gurgling sounds of the river that has slowed to allow safety and comfort for drinking. The scene continues where  pastures are displayed and they are filled with many varied wildflowers, all blooming. As the man or woman is close to their final breath, they see the end of their day, the sunset of beauty announces that the last remnants of light are rolling away. As the ever so gentle light fades on the waves of the sea, still a unity of color and music take hand to move on the notes of climax that is heard overhead.
The movement is slowly displayed toward the shore of sand, and the sun sinks, and the dusk of an evening is presented.....the music hits a crescendo of orchestral unity, video ends, curtains close, and lights come on and assistants show up to roll away the deceased into the food processing facility. Yikes!

Some decade ago, I had come across some dog foods that were being processed from dogs and cats which had died and were being used as the meat portion used to make this dog food. Some of them had become very ill and some had died with cancer. And the processor for these dog foods sold them to people who fed bad food to healthy pets. What happened? Why would someone do that?
So have you wondered of what they might be putting in the food you purchase at that specialty store of yours? You might consider first of taking it to prayer to God the Holy Spirit and say, "show me where I have been lied to and show me what is healthy food for me and mine and including my pet!"

Peter taught us to desire the milk of the word, but there is a time for meat! God’s word is for order in our lives! 1 Peter 2:1-3 Therefore, laying aside all malice, all deceit, hypocrisy, envy & malice, all evil speaking, 2 as newborn babes, desire the pure milk of the word, that you may grow thereby, 3 if indeed you have tasted that the Lord is gracious. 

Microwave mentality is not the best pathway when desiring to make decisions for health and safety for you and your family. No, the quickest is not always the best!

Jesus spoke in John 8:52 “if anyone keeps My word he shall never taste death.” Tasting the word is tasting and experiencing life God intended for us through His Son Jesus. It is knowing the Father of lights of whom there is no variation or shadow of turning. It is every good gift & every perfect gift from Him who keeps His promises.

We are also told in Hebrews 5:12-14 For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you again the first principles of the oracles of God; & you have come to need milk & not solid food. 13 For everyone who partakes only of milk is unskilled in the word of righteousness, for he is a babe. 14 But solid food belongs to those who are of full age, that is, those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil.

These words were given to a group of people who had become slothful in attitude of hearing & it resulted in a lack of spiritual growth! Advanced teachings we are told of in this passage was for the mature believers who had the ability to discriminate between sound doctrine & the unsound, and to discriminate between wholesome conduct and unwholesome conduct!

Not all people living today operate out of a wholesome conduct. They only have room for the greenback, that which some think of as the almighty dollar, but truly wholesome conduct is that which is found in the kingdom of God, where the Lord rules our hearts in making decisions for life and health. We are to grow up in His kingdom, to mature in the knowledge of Him and by the practice of the Scriptures in what is living by faith in Christ Who died to bring to us life and the Comforter, the Holy Spirit.

The continual teaching and hearing gives way to growth in us. Our being equipped in them is preparing us to be stable in chaotic times, to stand firm speaking what God gave us through His Son Jesus Christ and teach others.

God purposed us to be grown-up to see potential revealed in us and through us and not to remain as infants or in that state of infancy!

Man's way always crumbles beneath his feet. Unless we heed the Lord's guidance and teaching we fall headlong into disaster much like Judas Iscariot did! With so much about to occur on earth and in the heavens, should we not be alert to that which is warning from God, to know Jesus is returning soon for those who are His? 

Back to Hebrews 5, the writer Paul, tells us that these congregations were not equipped to feed themselves. They were not equipped to discern the sacred or spiritual from the profane or carnal. These in that independent state really need to seek, and to be about learning God's truth, learning of the kingdom of God to ultimately be weaned from that "bottle" fed mentality! And it appears that some of us over the years have seemingly lost our appetite for that solid, spiritual food and need to be fed intravenously.

If you have ever had to be fed intravenously or been given blood you might wonder what is in that blood and whose was it before it was put in that bag and hooked up with a hose and needle to be transferred into another human being! Prayer is certainly important, and a prayer team is a benefit when you are facing such things. You want healthy blood put into your blood system and the same works for good doctrine and that which is for "meat" eaters! We cannot remain as the little bird, with a syndrome of "feed me" when there is so much out there available in the way of bringing light into our existence on earth. We are to be fed with our Father's ever-strengthening truth and see that supernatural Light fill every area of our being.

All of us need to become less dependent on spiritual milk and instead become more capable of profiting from solid food. We should enjoy solid food, and there is a way to revitalize our spiritual appetite for the weightier matters. We certainly live in a place where gravity matters. And that gravity has the affect on us to keep us on the earth to live and work there. Still that same gravity has the pulling down effect to the person. So even though as a babe craves milk, we should crave the weightier things of God. We also must throw down dark thoughts to spiritually exercise understanding that we are not alone in this!

Exertion is found being done for the "good spiritual food".  Again from :1 Peter 2:1-2  NKJV  Therefore, laying aside all malice, all deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and all evil speaking, 2 as newborn babes, desire the pure milk of the word, that you may grow thereby,

Following 1 Peter 2:1, in which he admonishes us to rid ourselves of the fruits of spiritual junk food, Peter lists evidence of a mind afflicted with a poor spiritual diet! This specific diet included Malice which is ill will, the desire to inflict pain. It included Deceit and is listed as lying or crafty, seductive, and slanderous activity of a person. Another is Hypocrisy that pretending to be what one is not. Envy is the strong desire to possess what belongs to another and Evil speaking is using the tongue to gossip, deceiving others, or destroying reputations. All of these things lead to an unhealthy life and unhealthy situations that are seriously problematic!

And Peter proceeds to encourage us to crave God's Word just as a baby craves milk. He is not encouraging us to desire elementary spiritual food but emphasizing the energy we should exert to get good spiritual food. Babies demand milk as if their very life hangs in the balance at each feeding. And then after they get to it, watch their behavior as they have gotten that food in their mouth. Just a weekly feeding is never enough and we certainly should be about getting that which is purposed for us to grow and become what God our Father desires for His children.

It is the the apostle that calls God's Word pure, meaning uncontaminated, unpolluted by fraud or deceit. God's Word is truth: John 17:17 Sanctify them by Your truth. Your word is truth.

It is in Psalm 12:6 that David says God's Word is refined seven times: The words of the LORD are pure words, like silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times. Words of the Lord are morally pure!  So here, we see that truly, Peter is teaching us that God's word promotes spiritual growth and that good health just a good food can do for us physically!

Milk is tasty especially if you have no allergic reactions to it! But when we consider Paul's teaching from Hebrews 5, we really should see it is not about the desire but more about the depth. If we rely on others, heed their lies and do not seek out real truth, then where else is it possible that we are being fed something like soylent green that is not good for you? Seriously speaking in this day and time when so many are drug users, pot smokers and possible alcohol abusers, all that could put a profound effect on one's body for ill health, to appear weak, the gaunt if someone decided to start using those types of body of a "green thing" to be fed to you!

May we not slip into that baby bird mentality of feed me when so much vast wealth of God our Father has been presented and available at our fingertips. Truly God is for us, but we must be found with Him and not against Him!

WE must know truth to recognize when truth is not given to us.....it starts in the kingdom of God that has come! Amen.

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