Babies in the Service of Jesus

1 Peter 2:2-3

“Like newborn infants, long for the pure, spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow into salvation— if indeed you have tasted that the Lord is good.”

So in the light of all the bad things that we are supposed to leave behind when coming into the Lord, we need something to replace them.  There is a story of someone cleaning out their mind of an evil spirit, but not replacing it with something better leads to the evil spirit moving back in with a half dozen friends. 

We know that Peter was married, that bit is clued in for us in the gospels.  I wonder if he was a father, looking at this particular metaphor.

Like newborn infants, long for the pure, spiritual milk,--What an image!  We are but babies in the gospel of Jesus Christ, and we need to develop into new-renewed people..

so that by it you may grow into salvation—That is interesting.  We grow into salvation, is it not something that happens to us by the grace of Jesus Christ?  Interesting contrast.

if indeed you have tasted that the Lord is good.—I do not believe this is a communion metaphor.  Rather, it is a challenge.  We have come to the Lord, do we find it to be a good thing?