Mature in Christ

Every infant is born and grows up. Likewise, everyone born in the Spirit grows and matures in Christ. New believers crave spiritual milk like newborn babies, so that they may grow in their salvation (1 Pet 2:2-3). Milk is like pre-digested truth, easier to swallow whole, but meat requires the development of teeth and the action of chewing. So, what happens to Christians who keep gravitating towards milk long after they should be shifting over to the meat?? ---> They are slow to learn deeper truths (Heb 5:11-12), there is inability to articulate their faith (Heb 5:11-12), worldly behavior (1 Cor 3:3), inability to self feed (2 Tim 2:15), and inability to discern between good and bad (Heb 5:13-14). Anyone who lives on milk, being still an infant, is not acquainted with the teaching about righteousness! But solid food is for the mature, who by constant use have trained themselves to distinguish good from evil. Are you still sipping on spiritual milk when you should be on solids? Are we constantly examining ourselves and our motives for the things we say and do??

"Milk, not a reference to certain doctrines, but to the more easily digestible truths of doctrine that were given to new believers. Solid food, the deeper features of the doctrines of scripture. The difference is not in kind of truth, but degree of depth. Spiritual immaturity makes one unable to receive the richest truths." -John MacArthur

Therefore leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ, let us go on unto perfection; not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith toward God, Of the doctrine of baptisms, and of laying on of hands, and of resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment (Hebrews 6:1-2).

And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ. 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. For ye are yet carnal: for whereas there is among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as men (1 Corinthians 3:1-3)?