"But I, brothers, could not address you as spiritual people, but as people of the flesh, as infants in Christ. 2 I fed you with milk, not solid food, for you were not ready for it. And even now you are not yet ready, 3 for you are still of the flesh. For while there is jealousy and strife among you, are you not of the flesh and behaving only in a human way?" (1 Cor. 3:1-3).
Notice that Paul differentiates between spiritual people and people of the flesh or infants in Christ. What category do you fall under? Before we look at how to answer that question its important to note that becoming a spiritual person is an ongoing growth process. This process involves a steady diet of not only reading, hearing, and studying God's word, but applying it to your own life. All believers at one point are infants in Christ. But when Paul writes, "I fed you with milk, not solid food, for you were not ready for it. And even now you are not yet ready," he's implying that there were some believers who were stuck in spiritual infancy. The rest of the chapter reveals that what was stunting their growth was their human ways of pride. They were more focused on their own reputations and the reputations of others before men, rather than recognizing their own spiritual needs before God. Let's put away our pride and "grow up" in Jesus.
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