Like newborn babies, you must crave pure spiritual milk so that you will grow into a full experience of salvation. Cry out for this nourishment, now that you have had a taste of the Lord’s kindness. 1Peter 2:2-3

Remarking about the noise of modern life, an alternative pop rock band once sang: If we’re adding to the noise, turn off this song!

Our lives are complex and noisy in many ways. So, if feeding yourself spiritually only consists of listening to quick devotionals like this one, then we’re just adding to the noise!  The most encouraging words human beings can come up with, will never give you the essential spiritual nourishment that you need.

Have you ever observed a hungry newborn baby?  They have one thing and one thing only on their minds!  Their little heads twist, their lips pucker and yes, they cry out… for milk!  “Like newborn babies,” the Apostle Peter wrote, “you must crave pure spiritual milk so that you will grow into a full experience of salvation. Cry out for this nourishment” (1 Peter 2:2). Pure spiritual milk, or as some versions say, “the pure milk of the word” (1 Peter 2:2 NKJV) is the only thing that will truly satisfy and there is only one source for it:  the Scriptures.

The Bible has a lot to say about itself and its benefits—it says that it’s all ‘God-breathed” and profitable for “instruction, for conviction, for correction, and for training in righteousness” (2 Timothy 3:16).  But here is really why you need to spend time with the Bible every day: Jesus said, “It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh is no help at all. The words that I have spoken to you are spirit and life” (John 6:33).

If you haven’t interacted with Scripture today, put everything else down, turn everything off and drink up its God-breathed, life-giving words like a hungry newborn.