Ours is a society in which more people live to eat than eat to live. Feeling full of food, for many, is the greatest gratification of all. How many times, if we want to reward someone, get to know someone better or even say good bye to someone, do we throw a dinner party for them? While this is a beautiful tribute, it, also, makes me see one of mankind’s short comings.
It is so sad that we feed each other so much material food, yet forget that what is truly filling, and most needed, is to be hungry for the Lord.
We attend Church, Sunday school, Bible Studies, small groups, etc., etc., etc.; and it is easy to walk away feeling “full” of God. While this is all positive, wouldn’t it be even better if we walked away not “full” but “hungry” for Our Lord? There is nothing wrong with feeling saturated with God. None the less, just like when we feel stuffed but still crave that extra scoop of ice cream, what would happen to Christianity if after we close our Bibles for the day, we felt starved for an extra layer of God icing on its cover?
We don’t leave our dinner tables starving for food; but I wonder if we aren’t meant to, post Communion meal with God, step away totally hungry for more of the most needed nourishment of all – God, Himself. Thus, should our focus of satisfying our, and others, needed nourishment be on attaining a full stomach or a hungry appetite? Better yet, can we strive to fill our physical bodies but put first our need to hunger for The Lord?
The tank of our stomach feels contented when completely full. The vessel of our soul was created to be satisfied only when hungry. You decide your greatest need for today. It is to be “full” or “hungry”?
Uplifted in a Broken Down World 