Tom Thumbs in Grace by Charles Spurgeon Though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you the elementary truths of God's Word all over again. You need milk, not solid food. Hebrews chapter 5 verse 12

An infant, if he should continue an infant, always, would be a monster. However pleased the parents had been with the little one when he was a babe, they would soon be deeply distressed if year after year it still remained a tiny thing. Indeed, they would consider it a great calamity to be the parents of a dwarf.

What then shall we say of those professors who never grow? They are no more holy after 50 years. They are spiritual infants at 60 years of age.

I have in my house pictures of my twin sons taken on their birthdays for 21 years. They began in the cradle and end as full grown young men. But alas, I have spiritual children. whom I wheeled about in the stroller twenty years ago, and they are babies still, needing as much care as ever, and are not able to walk alone.

On me, that so many who ought to be warriors are weaklings, that those who should be men of six feet tall are so stunted as to be mere tom-thumbs in grace. O for grace to grow in grace, and especially in the knowledge of my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

God save us from a life which does not grow, and from a growth which is not healthy.

For this very reason, make every effort to add to your faith goodness, and to goodness knowledge, and to knowledge self-control.

2. Self-control – Perseverance
2. Perseverance – Godliness
2 Peter 1.5-6

Like newborn babies, crave pure spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow up in your salvation.
1 Peter 2.2