Charles Spurgeon Commentary 1 Corinthians 3:2

"I fed you with milk, not with meat; for ye were not yet able [to bear it]: nay, not even now are ye able;" — 1 Corinthians 3:2 (ASV)

I have fed you with milk, and not with meat: for hitherto ye were not able to bear it, neither yet now are ye able.

How grateful we ought to be that there is milk, and that this milk does feed the soul—that the simplest truths of Christianity contain in them all that the soul needs, just as milk is a diet on which the body could be sustained without anything else. Yet how we ought to desire to grow so that we may not always be on a milk diet, but so that we may be able to digest the strong meat—the high doctrine of the deep things of God. These are for men, not for babes. Let the babes be thankful for the milk, but let us aspire to be strong men so that we may feed on meat.

I have fed you with milk,

That is a blessing.

And not with meat:

That is not a blessing. It is a great privilege to be fed even with the simple doctrines of grace, with the milk of the gospel; but it is a higher blessing to have such a spiritual constitution as to be able to eat the strong meat of the Word.