A HUNGER FOR GOD!

Friday, May 24, 2019

A HUNGER FOR GOD!

Matt 5:6

6 Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled.

Isa 55:2

2 Wherefore do ye spend money for that which is not bread? and your labour for that which satisfieth not? hearken diligently unto me, and eat ye that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness.

           You know the feeling! It’s more than a craving for some delicacy. It’s a gnawing in your gut for something that will truly satisfy. The Bible in many places uses the analogy of hunger to describe the soul’s longing for a deeper, more substantial, and more satisfying relationship with God. Perhaps you have experienced it. Maybe you are hungry right now!

            Earthly things cannot support the soul. The soul has its own system for receiving nourishment and we often fail to understand that some things just cannot satisfy soul-hunger. Adam Clarke said: “God never inspires a prayer without a design to answer it!”

           Soul-hunger is a mourning over our sin! None need tell us that we are sinners. We feel it. We know it on a soul level and we despise it! It gnaws at us like deep hunger and it persists until it is satisfied with the righteousness of God through the forgiveness of grace. The prodigal felt it as surely as he felt true hunger in the hog pen! He said: “How many hired servants of my father's have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger!” Luke 15:17 Was he speaking of a desire for food or a desire to be restored to the father? Both, I think.

           Too many shallow Christians are subsisting on religious snacks! A true test of your soul’s condition is what makes you hungry. Some are content to touch or to be touched by God only occasionally but soul-hunger desires to be entirely conformed to the law and mind of God. Only then can the soul be at rest and the hunger satisfied.

Dear Lord, I’m soul-hungry today. Come and fill me with Thyself! AMEN