You can't make Milkshakes without Milk

The author of the book of Hebrews does not mince words when he wrote  
.. it is hard to get it across to you since you’ve picked up this bad habit of NOT LISTENING!  ... You ought to be teachers by now, yet here you are needing someone to go over the basics on God.. AGAIN! You need MILK, and  Milk is for BABIES!  Hebrews 5:11-14 (MSG).

BUT then again..  there are plenty of meaningful scriptures exhorting us to have the the faith of a child.


Mt 9:14 (LIV) Jesus said, “Let the little children come to me! Never send them away! For the Kingdom of God belongs to men who have hearts as trusting as these little children’s. 

and how about...

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Mt 18:2-4 (lIV) Jesus said, “Unless you turn to God from your sins and become as little children, you will never get into the Kingdom of Heaven. and then Jesus continues.. Therefore anyone who humbles himself as this little child is the greatest in the Kingdom of Heaven. 

even Max Lucado chimes in when he wrote in one of his books..  "Play hard, laugh loud and leave the worries to the Father."

Ok God so which is it? Be like a child or grow up? Drink Milk and eat my Wonder Bread, or grill me a T-Bone Steak?

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Before God answers that burning question let me take time for some Introspection..

1. I accepted Jesus into my heart at the age of six while sitting in the Back Pew (both true & ironic) of my home church during Summer Bible School.  Score one for faith of a child. BAM!
2. I was baptized at the age of 14. Score one for the faith of a.. skinny teenager?
3. I graduated High School and for the next 40 years I wandered like one of the Children of Israel living a life that  fell somewhere between becoming the next Billy Graham, and a life of crime. ​ Score one for wandering?  

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They say When life gives you lemons, make lemonade. Then by my reasoning.. if I have a glass of milk.. make a Milkshake? 

There you have it.. I am neither profound nor insightful all in one simple 'Jeffism'.

Seriously, I know God wants me to trust and love Him like as a child I did my own mom & dad. 

Also God wants me to grow up, and not end up a spiritual baby or even a lazy spiritual teen living in my Heavenly Father's  basement playing video games while this hurting world is in need of spiritual grown ups (men & women of God). 

Love God with all their heart soul and mind and others as themselves.  Spending time in God's word daily and in a constant attitude of prayer/conversation with God is the two step formula in becoming a spiritual grown up.

May God bless each of you in your faith journeys. Trust in God with all your heart, and lean not unto your own understandings. In all your ways acknowledge Him and He will direct your paths. Proverbs 3:5-6

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Jeff (Vanilla Milk Shake Drinking in the Back Pew) Larson

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