Cabbage, God's Word, and You

“As newborn babies desire the sincere milk of the Word, that ye may grow thereby.” (1 Peter 2:2)

Cabbage is one of those vegetables that many people must develop a taste for, but well worth the effort. This vegetable, with few calories, is packed with nutritional benefits and keeps its value no matter how or how long you cook it. But to receive the power-packed health benefits, you must ingest.

God supplies food for our physical survival and His Word for spiritual growth and stability. Inspired by God and penned by men, this Word teaches us what is true and false, right, and wrong. It shows us how to correct what is wrong in our lives and teaches us how to live right. His Word is our “road map” as we travel this life and an avenue by which we hear from Him, filling it with nutritious essentials needed to thrive in our Christian walk. Whether preached, taught, hummed, sung, whistled, thought, or written, God’s message and values stand strong, unchanging, and without error. But unless you “Taste and see that the Lord is good,” you will not profit from the blessings the Father holds for those who put their faith and trust in Him (Psalm 34:8). God’s Word must be “ingested”—taken in to receive the full healthful benefits.

Believers should long for the Word of God as desperately as a newborn baby cries out for milk. Nourished by a steady diet of the pure and unchanging truth of God’s Word, believers grow and mature as they claim and live out its promises. By lessons learned from our experiences of God’s goodness and faithfulness, we can encourage others to “taste and see” for themselves.