6 Cycles of Family Newborns Crave Milk

6 Cycles of Family

Newborns Crave Milk

Getting a good start for a bright future

Every mother can tell babies “crave” milk.

They don’t know how to say milk

but they sure know how to ask for it.

It is important that the craving is satisfied

not because we just want a quiet baby…

We want a healthy developing baby.

 

                                                   It is important that the baby’s cravings

are satisfied with healthy nourishment.

The baby’s future depends on proper nutrition.

There are three areas babies need nourishment –

·        The body, healthy foods and exercise

·        The spirit, emotional stability

·        The soul, sound mind

Every word, every action, every substance

becomes part of the baby and its future.

When Peter speaks of  

“newborn babies crave pure spiritual milk”

Peter has the future in mind.

Peter is talking about growing up

into priesthood, a spiritual house.

Peter is reminding us we must have

a vision or dream from the beginning.

Babies grow up.

Some grow up with a lack of control on their cravings.

 

he wise parents raise their baby with the end in mind.

I am not saying you have 6 kids and they

are all to be doctors like their dad or mom.

The wise parents will see their

child as a strong godly leader.

Like the father in Proverbs, wise parents

will teach their children to go after

Wisdom, Knowledge, Understanding, Discernment.

They will teach them self-disciplines and self-motivation.

Peter tells us where to get these resources.

All the instruction a parent needs

is found in the Word of God.

Babies need their craving filled every day.

  You can’t live on a pacifier.

   

Babies grow up too fast.

 We all need to establish times of the day when

you will get healthy nourishment.

Living long can be a real pain

if you are not living healthy.

God has a healthy, prosperous future in mind for you.

So be careful of how you satisfy your cravings today.

There are 6 cycles for a family to navigate 

“Cycles of family life”

The marriage

Bearing children

Raising children

The empty nest / launching new family

The declining years

Death in the marriage

Family cycles should be a great experience for the whole family

Scripture Reading

1 Peter 2:2-5 NIV

2 Like newborn babies, crave pure spiritual milk,

so that by it you may grow up in your salvation,

3 now that you have tasted that the Lord is good.

4 As you come to him, the living Stone —

rejected by men but chosen by God and precious to him—

5 you also, like living stones, are being built into a

spiritual house to be a holy priesthood,

1 Peter 2:9-10 NIV

9 But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood,

a holy nation, a people belonging to God, that you may

declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness

into his wonderful light. 10 Once you were not a people,

but now you are the people of God; once you had not received

mercy, but now you have received mercy.