I am thankful for hunger.
…..Not the kind that comes from an empty stomach.
I am thankful that I have a hunger for knowing what God has said, what He has done, and what His will is.
I am thankful that the hunger is met with understanding another layer of truth.
I am thankful that the hunger returns, only to be met with understanding yet another layer of truth.
I am thankful for the written Word of God, the book we call Bible, a source of feeding my hunger.
Jesus said, “ Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled.”(Matt.5:6)
The Message says it like this…."You're blessed when you've worked up a good appetite for God. He's food and drink is the best meal you'll ever eat.”
I’m sad that so many people have no hunger for Him. Some have just accepted their unrighteous condition and don’t have an appetite for right-ness at all.
So many people have never been empty. They are stuffed and running over with themselves. They fill themselves up with spiritual junk food and top it off with a big ME-pie.
Like it or not, admit it or not…we are spiritual beings. There is a spirit within us that will be fed. And when we don’t on purpose feed it the right thing, it will graze on all the junk food it can find, and there is plenty of it in our culture.
I am so thankful to be aware of what I am really hungry for. I am so thankful to know what it is to have that hunger fully satisfied.
When you find what you are really hungry for, nothing else will ever satisfy you again.
“ I am the bread of life.”(John 6:48)
You are hungry for God. Whether you know it or not, or admit it or not. You are.
And nothing else will ever fill you like He will.
