The Candied Apple
IllustrationAnalogy★★★★FIRST Peter 2:2 tells us to “longfor the pure milk of the Word.” Pure means undiluted. A lot of us want the Word but we mix it up with other information. At most county or state fairs, you can find candied apples— apples dipped in sugar. Now, apples by themselves are a great, healthy fruit. Once you dip them in sugar, however, you’ve just killed the benefit of the apple although it tastes good. A candied apple is sweet but its nutritional value is diluted because something with no value has been added to it. Many of us will read the Word, hear the Word, and then talk to people about the Word but then dip it in human viewpoint.
The point
Mixing God's pure Word with worldly viewpoints undermines its spiritual value, like sugar-coating an apple destroys its nutritional benefit.