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GROWTH PROMOTES APPETITE
1 Peter 2:2 says: "As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby."
Just as healthy growing children have good appetites, so we must always be increasing in our appetite for righteousness. Growth is a healthy thing in young people. Shoes and clothes quickly become too small. It's a good thing!
The only way to satisfy a hungry appetite is to feed it!
Fathers and mothers must also do all they can to promote spiritual hungry appetites in their children. It is imperative that we prove daily doses of God's Word, coupled with prayer in a way that promotes an ever increasing appetite in them for God and for righteousness.
Parents are responsible before God for the creation of spiritual growth in their children. And growth promotes appetite. Even though there comes a time in the natural order that young people reach their full height and their appetite settles down somewhat, we must never stop growing in the spiritual realm.
God is calling for spiritual giants. We become spiritual giants by the divine force of growth. Parents, we must grow spiritual giants who have a ravenous appetite for righteousness. These are the young people who will flood the world with righteousness. But we cannot do this unless we ourselves have a continual increasing hunger for righteousness. We lead the way.
Be encouraged.
Colin Campbell
