Thursday,
November 8, 2018
I
WANT SOMETHING!
Matt 5:6
6
Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall
be filled.
John 6:35
35
And Jesus said unto them, I am the bread of life: he that cometh to me shall
never hunger; and he that believeth on me shall never thirst.
“I
want something!”
It is an often repeated late night comment that I will say to my wife or she
will say to me. We understand it to mean some craving for a late night snack.
Perhaps a small, or large, dish of ice cream or maybe some popcorn or SOMETHING
is offered to satisfy the munchies. Sometimes we will finish the snack and say
to each other: “That wasn’t it.”
The
hunger and thirst
after righteousness is felt by many but recognized by few. We sample our way
through life trying to satisfy a spiritual hunger with worldly fare. The result
is that we are not only unsatisfied but frustrated and full of the wrong stuff.
The hunger grows and a bitter aftertaste is left from those things we have
sampled.
“The
biggest enemy of the Church is the development and proliferation of programs to
meet
people's needs. Everyone has a hunger for God, but our tastes (needs)
are screwed up. We've been raised on junk food, so what we ask for is often
wrong or twisted.” -- Eugene Peterson
in The Door (Nov. /Dec. 1991). Christianity Today, Vol. 37, no. 8.
Ps 90:14
14
O satisfy us early with thy mercy; that we may rejoice and be glad all our
days.
Dear
Lord, help me to properly understand what I am hungry for … then fill me with
you. AMEN
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