by Tony Clark
Words have been coming forward recently about God bringing meat to Forerunners International. I began to enquire of God about the difference between milk and meat, and noticed something very significant about meat.
Give a baby meat before it’s ready, before it’s able to chew, swallow, digest and process it and you will have problems. If a child is not ready for meat, it won’t have the teeth to chew it, and so it won’t be ready to swallow, in fact, just like the milk, the baby will just try to swallow it straight down and choke, and if it does make it down to the stomach it will be hard to digest.
When speaking of milk and meat, we are obviously talking about truth, ideas, concepts and realities or doctrine. God eases us into things we can easily accept, building a foundation for much more revolutionary and powerful ideas and concepts. Problem is that if we haven’t submitted to the milk, and allowed it to nourish us, then when the meat comes we won’t be able to stomach it. The milk is the basics - if we don’t get the basics right we can’t move on to the more complex topics.
This is what God was speaking to me about: That just as a baby rejects solid food, when meat comes we will reject it if we have not been trained by the milk, because of offence. It’s a matter of the heart. If we are resistant, and difficult when He’s tried to feed us milk (through the leadership He has put over us) more so the offence and difficulty when we are presented solid food. It’s all about nourishment, if we don’t eat we die.
We are in a season where we need to move on to the meatier things, and I feel that we have an opportunity to examine our hearts, to see if we are resisting, and look at any offence we may be harbouring. It’s time to move on, from mere children, to more mature adults. Our future is dependent upon it!