“For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need that one teach you again which be the first principles of the oracles of God; and are become such as have need of milk, and not of strong meat.” Hebrews 5:12

If you are familiar with the comic strip “Peanuts” you probably know about Linus. Linus is always walking around carrying his security blanket and never gives it up to anyone for any reason. There are people in our churches who are like Linus carrying around their security blankets. They need to hold onto something because they think Jesus isn’t enough. They want Jesus plus something else. But, Jesus plus anything else is nothing.

These are people who may hold onto their good works to determine if they are good enough. They hold to their denominational ties, their family heritage, pride and personal preferences thinking that is what it takes – plus Jesus.

Giving up these security blankets is similar to a child giving up their pacifier. One father said he talked his daughter into giving up her pacifier when she was two and they threw it in the dumpster hoping to never see it again. A week later at the mall parking lot there was a dumpster by one of the entrances. She quickly cried thinking her pacifier was in there.

If we are going to be grow up spiritually, we will have to give up our security blankets and pacifiers. As we do, we need a stronger desire to move from milk to meat that we might grow in the Lord. If we ask many of our Christian friends if they are stronger in their walk for Christ than they were five or ten years ago, many would have to honestly say, “No.” They just might be holding on to their pacifiers.

Bro. Larry