Still Drinking Milk

1 Corinthians 3:2-3

I gave you milk, not solid food, for you were not yet ready for it. Indeed, you are still not ready. You are still worldly. For since there is jealousy and quarreling among you, are you not worldly?

Is it not an odd circumstance that Paul says he fed the believers of the Corinthian church with milk and not solid food. Yet, at the same time, he was able to rebuke these specific qualities in the church: jealousy, quarreling, and worldliness. You will always have quarrels, disagreements, and other human issues until the day you die and are taken up to the Father. You will also have testing and trials according to 1 Peter 4:12. How you handle these tests is at the heart of Christian maturity. A sign of maturity is the ability to receive such a word. If some saints of today were told this, they would crucify the pastor. Is it not therefore possible that there are some things that God cannot make known to you until you get to Heaven. Is it not possible that he has not fully revealed himself yet to the church. Is not the gospel a story of Christ in pursuit of the church following such a sacrifice for her as Ephesians 5:25 points out. Maturity in Christ is a process of ever growing closer to the one who made this whole story possible.