I Peter 2:1-3
“So clean house! Make a clean sweep of malice and pretense, envy and hurtful talk. You’ve had a taste of God. Now, like infants at the breast, drink deep of God’s pure kindness. Then you’ll grow up mature and whole in God.”
“So get rid of all evil behavior. Be done with all deceit, hypocrisy, jealousy, and all unkind speech. Like newborn babies you must crave pure spiritual milk so that you will grow into a full expression of salvation. Cry out for this nourishment, now that you have had a taste of the Lord’s kindness.”
We are to desire God as a newborn craves milk. Have you ever seen a ravenously hungry infant the first moments it takes the breast? It is more than desire that drives him. It is a super frantic, all-consuming need beyond his own ability to satisfy. He seems terrified of hunger and so the breast is a unimaginable relief. Once he connects with the nipple he gulps, swallows and almost drowns himself by his suckling. This is how we should desire and reach for the Lord. Acknowledge we are lost and terrified. Once we hear and respond to his call we should drown ourselves in him and his Word.
Lord, I usually don’t have this kind of drive to seek you. Forgive me. Help me twofold. May my hunger for you grow ravenous. And may I be driven by the need to gulp and swallow your Word, to drown myself in you.