Drinking Spiritual Milk

“Like newborn babies, crave pure spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow up in your salvation, now that you have tasted that the Lord is good.”- 1 Peter 2:2-3

The only way a baby grows is to drink milk and later eat food. But if a baby didn’t like the milk offered to him, he wouldn't want to drink it.

So it’s wonderful when we realize God is good. It makes us want more of Him and to be more like Him. We can do that by drinking pure spiritual milk.

That means filling our minds with loving thoughts of others, thinking of ways we can please God by helping them and studying God's word, the Bible, to understand God better.

I'm working my way through the book of I Samuel in the Bible's Old Testament. It's easy to read on www.biblegateway.com.

I might even drink some milk while I read. All that talk of drinking made me thirsty.

Take care,

Kayleen

Have a good day!

Everlasting Spring

“You will go forth and skip about like calves from the stall.” Malachi 4:2

The coming of spring causes everyone to get excited, but none more than farmers. When my husband was a farmer, he couldn’t wait for spring’s first signs around our farm--softened ground, small tufts of green grass in the pastures, and most welcome of all, a warm, gentle breeze.

Our dairy cows appeared just as anxious for spring. Standing at the edge of the dry cement lot, they lifted their noses to smell the sweet clover in the fields. When we removed the barbed-wire fence surrounding the lot, their clumsy bodies bumped each other in an intense desire to escape.

Then, they were off! The scene reminded me of a Boston marathon for cows. Old and young alike leaped into the air in their eagerness to be free.

Malachi prophesied that on the day of the Lord’s coming those who feared Him would skip about jubilantly. I can’t wait to kick up my feet in welcome of the end of life’s long struggle. It gives me courage to press on.

God, help me remember through life’s struggles that it isn’t long until You’ll come for me and I’ll be carefree and happy.

Will you be happy when the Lord returns again?

Take care,
Kayleen Reusser

Peter Knew How to Sling Words Together

“Then know this, you and all the people of Israel: It is by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified but whom God raised from the dead, that this man stands before you healed. Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved.”- Acts 4:10,12


Peter really knew how to sling words together, didn't he? That direct approach might not work for all of us, but we know God was with him. We're studying evangelism styles in our Bible Study. I ranked highest in Serving. Lowest in Direct Approach.

I hope you can serve someone today or approach them as Peter did and show them Jesus either way.

Take care,

Kayleen