Hebrews 5:13 For every one that useth milk is unskilful in the word of righteousness: for he is a babe.

Do you remember a time when you resented being called a baby? When we become born again at an age where self-image resents beginning from scratch there is a tendency to resent the milk of the word. One should not resent the milk of the word.

1 Peter 2:2 As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby:

Step two in this understanding about how and why sin enters into the life of a believing Christian is growth. That sincere milk has protective properties just as mother’s milk is best for newborns. It contains everything necessary for babies to grow up strong and healthy. It should not be taken lightly just because we do not consider ourselves babies.

Hebrews 5:12 For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need that one teach you again which be the first principles of the oracles of God; and are become such as have need of milk, and not of strong meat.

This is what happens when you do not have a proper respect and understanding of the sincere milk of the word. We want to grow up to be of an age in the spirit which matches our self-image. We want to skip steps and the kingdom life does not work that way. Growth comes in proper stages according to His design and a proper diet.

Romans 14:2 For one believeth that he may eat all things: another, who is weak, eateth herbs.

In the first birth babes come to eat veggies before they are strong enough to walk. We who are of age walk in the natural and assume we can walk in the spirit just as soon as we are weaned off a diet of milk. Not so, we must become stronger in the faith in order to walk in the spirit. We need not strong meat to begin to walk, but we should accept that our walk will be unstable and fraught with falls.