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.

2 Samuel 11:1 And it came to pass, after the year was expired, at the time when kings go forth to battle, that David sent Joab, and his servants with him, and all Israel; and they destroyed the children of Ammon, and besieged Rabbah. But David tarried still at Jerusalem.

In a study on how believers who have a relationship with Jesus get caught up in sin, I looked to David’s sin with Bathsheba to discover what preceded that occasion. What I first discovered was that King David wasn’t taking care of kingdom business. It seems that if we are about doing kingdom business there is a protective covering which God provides while serving His will.

David was the anointed king, his role and responsibilities were easily seen and understood. Where do we fit in to God’s will? What are your roles and responsibilities? If you are a priest or pastor that is an easy answer. What about the rest of us? Where do we fit in God’s kingdom business? This is one of the most difficult and troublesome of questions within the body of Christ. Where do I fit in?

If you will accept the Word to be true for you as it is given to be understood in plain a text reading, then first begin with the moment of being born again. Being born in the spirit is likened unto being born of water because it is a new beginning to which you know nothing about this world you have just entered. As a baby from the womb of your mother the natural position is of helplessness. We are totally dependent on everything because we cannot help ourselves. We grow little by little, step by step, from one age to the nest.

If you are born again in the spirit while you are fifteen or twenty-five, or thirty-five or even sixty-five there is a refusal within the natural experience to recognize and accept total dependency. We fight to find our place within the body that says “I am forty years old, don’t treat me like a baby.”

The key to beginning the growth process is accepting that as a truth in kingdom life. Step one.