Babies

"I could not address you as spiritual people," 1 Corinthians 3:1.

Instead, the apostle must address us as babies. Babies in Christ, perhaps, but babies nonetheless. (Oh, yeah?! When you say things like that, Paul, it makes me want to just stomp my feet and throw myself on the floor and beat my fists on the ground and yell out loud!) And why must he address us like babies? because we haven't grown into spiritual adults yet. because we still think with a fleshly mindset: I follow this religious heavyweight or I follow that other more religious one. (Or think that one political figure or another is our salvation!) Jealousy. Strife. Signs of toddler behavior. Not attuned to the Spirit and mind of Christ.

We meet with a brother or sister today humbled and quieted by the Spirit of God. And together we give thanks that God grows us patiently into spiritual adults focused in the mind of Christ.