Hungering for God

 

What do you hunger, thirst, long for? Where do you seek satisfaction? Where do you look for fulfillment? What keeps you busy?

Many of us are getting ripped off by the world because we hunger for the things the world offers, and we seek satisfaction and pleasure from worldly things instead of getting true satisfaction from the things of God and instead of hungering and thirsting for the true righteousness of God. Many of us are busy with the world and all its distractions, and we end up giving Jesus our leftovers instead of blessing Him with our first fruits. 

To hunger and thirst means to long for, crave, and have a consuming passion for something. Hunger is a lasting experience, not something that is quickly or easily satisfied. It’s an “all-the-time, never going away” thing. Hunger is when we can’t get enough – in this case, it is when we simply cannot get enough of God. And God blesses our hunger – when we desire God, He will fill that desire and become a part of us.

Are you hungering for God? Thirsting for His righteousness? Hungering for His ways and His word? Are you excited with joy in your heart to be obedient to His word because of how much You love Him?

If we really want to hunger for God, we have to forsake the world and say “no” to the things that are keeping us from God, and we truly have to desire to prayerfully follow the Lord with our whole hearts.

Falling on my knees in worship,
Giving all I am to seek your face,
Lord all I am is yours.

 My whole life I place in your hands,
God of mercy, humbled I bow down
in your presence, at Your throne

 I called, You answered
and You came to my rescue
and I want to be where You are

 In my life, be lifted high,
In our world, be lifted high,
In our love, be lifted high.