November 18

“I have fed you with milk, and not with meat: for hitherto ye were not able to bear it, neither yet now are ye able.” (1 Corinthians 3:2)

You know it is always regarded a great event in the family. When a child can feed itself. It is propped up at table, and at first perhaps it uses the spoon upside down, but by and by it all right, and mother, or perhaps sister, claps her hands and says:

“Just see, baby’s feeding himself”

What we need as Christians is to be able to feed ourselves. How many there are who sit helpless and listless, with open mouths, hungry for spiritual things, and the minister has to try to feed them, while the Bible is a feast prepared, into which they never venture!