Hunger and Thirst
Matthew 5:6 Blessed
are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled.
IF you’re as me, you get hungry often. Is that the way we
respond to God’s Word? Do we get hungry and eat? Or do we lack such an
appetite?
Becoming hungry
and thirsty for God’s righteousness—his true ways of life—sometimes requires
appetizers. Most of us are not inclined to be naturally hungry for God’s word
as we are for food and water. Our sin nature causes us to look upon the word
and find it distasteful and dry.
But an appetizer
can come when someone speaks a word of prayer from the Bible. An appetizer can
come when you hear a challenge, a comfort, a promise, a hope or purpose from
God in a sermon. An appetizer can come from a praise song or sacred hymn. An
appetizer can stir your taste buds through a “God sighting” as you see him work
to heal or a good friend who just “happens” to stop by when you need him.
Jesus demonstrates
the power of a holy appetizer in his conversation with the woman at the well. “Jesus answered her, ‘If you knew the gift
of God and who it is that asks you for a drink, you would have asked him and he
would have given you living water.’ ‘Sir,’ the woman said, ‘you have nothing to
draw with and the well is deep. Where can you get this living water?” (John
4:10-12)
She was
spiritually broken and dry. Jesus gave her a taste of salvation. Thirsty, she
drank of him more and more and was filled eternally.
LIFE Link: Taste and
see that the Lord is good. Blessed is the one who takes refuge in him. (Psalm 34:8)
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