Hunger for God

Our appetites often dictate the direction of our lives. If your stomach desires food, you fill it. Some desire possessions or power, they go after it. But what I’m referring to today is an appetite for for God. This hunger for God is the only thing that will bring victory in our lives. This is the only hunger that will bring complete and ultimate satisfaction.

If you’re desiring the things of the world, it will slowly eat away eat away at you. So much that there will be no room for God or anything as soul satisfying as God’s plan for your life.

Hunger is one of the basic needs of humankind. Have you ever noticed that when someone is physically ill, one of the first signs that something is wrong is that their appetite changed, or that they start losing weight dramatically.

An indicator that something is wrong spiritually is when we no longer have that hunger or thirst for God. We become complacent and stop looking to God for guidance, nourishment.

Physically, when we hunger for food, we generally fill that need pretty quickly. Hunger puts that desire to seek something to fill us up.

The next time you feel lost, depressed, unsure of how life’s going to turn out, open God’s word, the Bible, and I can assure you that your feelings will soon be replaced with joy, meaning and a purpose to seek more of God.

Matthew 5:6 - “Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be satisfied.”