The Pure Milk of the Pure Word :: 1 Peter 2:2
Hallelujah! He is risen! ... (He is risen, indeed! Hallelujah!) Brothers and sisters in Christ, your acknowledgement of this means that you are like (the) newborns of our Introit. In the new birth of life, (you are being) caused to sing aloud to God our strength (Ps 81:1a). You ... the Baptized of Christ ... have been baptized into the death and resurrection of our Lord Jesus, and now you walk in the newness of life (Rm 6:3-4). It’s hard to wrap your head around this idea, isn’t it? ... This pure milk of God’s pure Word for you? The idea that you died and now live? The idea that you who feel old, or maybe just older, that you are in fact a newborn, wholly and utterly dependent upon the pure milk of the pure Word of God ? ... You may think you are 90 or 80 or 70 or 60 or 50 or 40 or 10. You may think you are a meat-and-potatoes kind of man with no time for Bible study, let alone fun and games. But you have new life NOW! In distress, [you call] and he delivers (Ps 81:7). You may...